That was early!

[venta]

I've just picked, and eaten, a ripe bramble.

Incidentally: spikey thorny bushes are called brambles. The fruits that grow on them are called brambles, also known as blackberries.

Or so I think. One of our sysadmins at work insists that only the bushes are called brambles - to the extent of being adamant that bramble jelly is made from the leaves and the shoot-tips. He's clearly insane.

However. How common is it to call the fruits brambles ? Would you do it ?

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[shermarama]

I'd sometimes call the fruit you find on wild bramble bushes that are commonly called blackberries brambles, but, I've probably picked that up as a back-formation from making bramble jelly using blackberries. And not the leaves and shoots...

Wild raspberries as opposed to cultivated varieties do look more like common brambles, long straggly stems with small thorns. The tendency to form neat canes has been bred in, I think.