Bramble

Taken at Strathclyde Park on 5th June 2025 using Nikon Coolpix P950
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Flower
Taken at Pow Burn on 12th September 2021 using Panasonic Lumix LX5 in macro mode.		 Fact File
Seeding
Taken at Baron's Haugh on 12th August 2021 using Panasonic Lumix LX5 in macro mode.		 Fact File
Taken at Baron's Haugh on 12th August 2025 using Nikon Coolpix P950 Fact File

Ripened Fruit
Taken at Hogganfield Loch on 10th September 2015 using Nikon D5200 - 18-55 mm lens with Raynox DCR-250 Macro Attachment		 Fact File

Unripened Fruit
Taken at Ardmore Point on 20th October 2019 using Nikon D500 with Sigma 600 mm zoom lens.		 Fact File

Bramble.
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Local Names: 		Rubus fruticosus.
Rosales.
Rosaceae.
A Sub-shrub.
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 Likes woodland, heathland and hedge banks.
May - September.
1 - 3 m high.
The Bramble, also called the Blackberry, yeilds a delicious fruit which old folklore tells us not to eat after September 29th, Michealmas. If you do then the Devil will spit on them! However, there is an insect, the flesh-fly, which does put a saliva-like fluid onto the fruit which it later sucks up along with the juice of the fruit.