7 Fascinating Berry Facts You Need to Know 

This berry information is for birdwatchers. Berry bushes are a great method to attract birds to your yard. Beautiful cedar waxwings, which rarely visit feeders, will eat fruit.   

1

You undoubtedly knew raspberries are red, but not that they're multicolored. They come in gold, purple, and black. Black raspberries are smaller than store red raspberries and used for cooking.  

2

Currants and gooseberries were forbidden in the U.S. until 1966. They hosted white pine blister rust, which kills white pines. Some states have limits. Growing these berries may require a permission in those states.  

3

Put down supermarket blueberries! Growing these luscious fruits in your garden is easier than you think, but you need the right conditions. Blueberries like 4–5 pH soil.   

4

Bananas are berries, but you probably never knew that. A banana is a berry since it comes from a single-ovary blossom. Modern varieties are seedless.  

5

Although they share a name, cherries are stone fruits, not berries. Other stone fruits are peaches, plums, and apricots.  

6

Thorny wild blackberries turn black when ripe. Despite having fewer colors than raspberries, blackberries can be thorned or not.  

7

Also See

Meet the Tiny Fiery Skipper Butterfly