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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[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

Brambles is the plants you find growing on roadsides and in woodlands, and the fruit thereof. Though I hear some people call them 'blackberries'.

Raspberries, as everyone knows, grow on canes and attract tinks and gadgees from a long way away to come and pick them for a pittance.

I lived in the Tay Valley, I know these things.

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[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Did you pick loads of tayberries then?

I used to work on a fruit farm. For 6 summers.

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[nevecat.livejournal.com]

There are also several varieties of wild brambly thing, IIRC. Some of distinctly more spiky and some have fruit with far fewer 'globules'.

I do seem to remember that some of them are non-edible, but that could have just been that my parents used to take me blackberry-picking in places where there was deadly nightshade mixed in or something *shrugs vaguely*

Mind you, the plants were clearly mutated back at home - for example 6'+ tall nettles that could (and frequently did) sting through multiple layers of rubber gloves, gardening gloves/leather mittens. And then proceed to hurt for about a week (no, that isn't childhood exaggeration, my mother still dons protective clothing to try and get rid of them and still gets horribly stung)...