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Rubus ursinus 'Boysen'

 
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Family: Rosaceae (ro-ZAY-see-ee) (Info)
Genus: Rubus (ROO-bus) (Info)
Species: ursinus (ur-SEE-nus) (Info)
Cultivar: Boysen

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Category:
Edible Fruits and Nuts
Vines and Climbers

Height:
6-8 ft. (1.8-2.4 m)

Spacing:
6-8 ft. (1.8-2.4 m)

Hardiness:
USDA Zone 5a: to -28.8 °C (-20 °F)
USDA Zone 5b: to -26.1 °C (-15 °F)
USDA Zone 6a: to -23.3 °C (-10 °F)
USDA Zone 6b: to -20.5 °C (-5 °F)
USDA Zone 7a: to -17.7 °C (0 °F)
USDA Zone 7b: to -14.9 °C (5 °F)
USDA Zone 8a: to -12.2 °C (10 °F)
USDA Zone 8b: to -9.4 °C (15 °F)
USDA Zone 9a: to -6.6 °C (20 °F)
USDA Zone 9b: to -3.8 °C (25 °F)
USDA Zone 10a: to -1.1 °C (30 °F)
USDA Zone 10b: to 1.7 °C (35 °F)

Sun Exposure:
Full Sun
Sun to Partial Shade

Danger:
Unknown - Tell us

Bloom Color:
Pink
Blue-Violet
White/Near White

Bloom Time:
Late Spring/Early Summer
Mid Summer

Foliage:
Smooth-Textured

Other details:
May be a noxious weed or invasive
This plant is attractive to bees, butterflies and/or birds
Average Water Needs; Water regularly; do not overwater

Soil pH requirements:
6.1 to 6.5 (mildly acidic)
6.6 to 7.5 (neutral)
7.6 to 7.8 (mildly alkaline)

Patent Information:
Unknown - Tell us

Propagation Methods:
From woody stem cuttings
From softwood cuttings
By grafting
By simple layering

Seed Collecting:
Unknown - Tell us

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Profile:

1 positive
1 neutral
No negatives

Gardeners' Notes:

RatingAuthorComment
Positive robynhagele On Jul 4, 2009, robynhagele from Marshalltown, IA wrote:

We have seven plants on our property and bloom at said time. The bloom is white then turns pink then when in full bloom and sweet they are blue-violet in color. We live in central Iowa on a farm and have some long winters and some short summers but we have had lots of rain so the plants are blooming great this year.

Neutral desert_witch On Mar 24, 2006, desert_witch from Lucerne Valley, CA (Zone 8a) wrote:

A boysenberry is a cross among a blackberry, red raspberry and loganberry. It was created by Rudolph Boysen, and first commercially cultivated by Walter Knott.

They discovered that Rudolf Boysen had abandoned his growing experiments and sold his farm. Knott headed out to Boysen's old farm, where he found several frail vines surviving in a field. The vines were transplanted to Knott's farm where he nurtured them back to fruit-bearing health.

Walter Knott began selling the berries at his farm stand in 1935 and soon noticed that people kept returning to buy the large sweet berries. When asked what they were called, Knott named them, "Boysenberries".

Mrs. Knott began making preserves which made Knott's Berry Farm in California world famous.

Regional...

This plant has been said to grow in the following regions:

Oak View, California
Marshalltown, Iowa
Layton, Utah



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