Raspberry

raz'ber-ry, a popular fruit-bearing bramble. The fruit differs from the blackberry chiefly in separating from the receptacle when ripe. The drupelets of the raspberry come away from the receptacle in a cup-shaped fruit. In reality the fruit is not a berry at all. A berry, as a grape, a tomato, a cranberry, a partridge berry, a currant, or a gooseberry, contains more than one seed. Fruits with one hard seed, as a plum, peach, cherry, elderberry, are stone fruits. A raspberry, like a blackberry, is really a collection of small stone fruits. Our red and our black garden raspberries are derived from native plants of eastern North America. The "fire raspberry" from Japan is cultivated for its ornamental autumn foliage, and the Rocky Mountain raspberry, for its fine white flowers. See Blackberry