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Batophila is a genus of leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae) with an ovate, convex body and rows of punctures on their elytra. At least one species lives on raspberry, blackberry and strawberry plants.
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The bramble (Rubus fruticosus) or blackberry, is a prickly deciduous shrub of the family Rosaceae, allied to the raspberry. Bramble has sprawling, or erect, prickly, woody, arched and biennial stems that often root where they touch the ground. The leaves are stalked and have three to five, oval, serrate leaflets with white or grey, hairy undersides. The flowers are white or pink in colour, arranged in terminal racemes and are borne on separate, erect, second-year stems that die after flowering. Bramble is a prolific wild plant in Britain, and bears compound fleshy drupes known as blackberries in autumn, these starting red in colour and turning a glossy black when ripe.
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Byturus is a genus of beetles of the family Byturidae. The genus includes the species Byturus tomentosus - the Raspberry Beetle, whose larvae develop in raspberries and blackberries.
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The dewberry (Rubus coesius) is a European plant related to the raspberry and blackberry and belonging to the Rosaceae. The stem is prostrate and nearly round, prickly below, bristly above. The leaves are comprised of three to five leaflets and the fruit consists of a few large drupes covered with greyish bloom which resembles dew - whence the name - and half enclosed in the calyx.
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A drupe is a fleshy fruit formed from a monocarpellary or syncarpous gynaecium, containing one or more seeds each of which is enclosed by a hard, stony portion of the pericarp at dispersal. The fruit of the raspberry is a
drupe, for example.
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In botany, an etaerio or eterio is a collection of distinct indehiscent carpels, either dry upon a fleshy receptacle as the strawberry, or dry upon a dry receptacle as the ranunculus, or fleshy upon a dry receptacle as the raspberry, the parts being small drupes.
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Fryberry was an old 16th century name for the Raspberry.
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The raspberry (Rubus idaeus and others) is a prickly deciduous shrub of the family Rosaceae, native to Britain and other European countries. It is a perennial plant with erect, woody stems which are produced as suckers from the roots, and are armed with numerous weak prickles and densely covered with a white bloom. The leaves are pinnate and have five to seven leaflets, and are white and hairy beneath. The raspberry bears a fruit which is red or orange when ripe and is widely eaten.
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The raspberry beetle (Byturus tomentosus) is a beetle of the family Byturidae, so called on account of its larvae developing in the fruit of the raspberry and blackberry.
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The Raspberry Moth (Lampronia rubiella) is a moth of the family Incurvariidae with a wing span of between 11 and 14 mm found throughout Europe flying from June to July at night. The adult lay her eggs in raspberry plants, and the emerging caterpillars damage the receptacles of ripening fruit before hibernating and then working their way into the buds and young shoots.
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