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[R] Rubus strigosus (Rosaceae) (syn: Rubus idaeus L.).
Fr: Framboisier; Ge: Himbeerstrauch; Pt: Framboesa; Sp: Frambuesa; It: Lampone.
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- A brambly bush with underground roots, perennial, each year the root system produces new growth.
- The fleshy fruit (raspberry), composed of small, red drupes are consumed fresh or processed (jam, jellies, syrups, liqueurs) (*) .
- The principal European producers are Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy.
- Planting occurs in winter during the dormant period. The canes live for 2 years; green the first year, they flower and become woody during the second; they are then called fruiting canes. The dead canes are cut each year after the fruit season.
- Plantations must be weeded regularly because of direct competition with weeds and also because of the possiblity of weed seeds propagating diseases (Stellaria media).
- Raspberry is propagated by cuttings or root suckers.
- Harvesting starts the 2nd year. A plantation can produce for 10 to 15 years.
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- Diseases: (Didymella applanata) and viral diseases (mosaics transmitted by the large raspberru aphid Amphorophora rubi Kaltenbach (Hom. Aphididae) can cause, depending on the cultivar, serious damage to plantations. Just before harvest, grey mould (Botrytis cinerea), developing 2 days after fruit maturity, can produce serious losses.
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- Principal European pests: the most important are the raspberry beetle (Byturus urbanus) whose larvae live in the fruit, the small raspberry aphid, Aphis idaei Van de Goot (Hom. Aphididae), and the two-spotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae) on the leaves.
Also deserving mention are the raspberry cane midge (Resseliella theobaldi), the blackberry stem gall midge, Lasioptera rubi (Heeger) (Dip., Cecidomyiidae) and the raspberry leaf and bud mite, Phyllocoptes gracilis (Nalepa) (Ac. Eriophyidae).
Nematodes, leafhoppers and aphids spread certain diseases.

[R] Images

* Raspberry-bush shoot (Minost C.)
a: stem with prickles; b: leaf with 3 to 7 leflets (dentate); c: petiole engaining; d: flowers greenish, arranged in a loose terminal panicle; e: fruit (small red drupes).

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