I give you.... the most divisive plant in the world.

I give you.... the most divisive plant in the world.

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The division is between people who think they're great and people who think they're the greatest.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I murder the frick out of Himalayan blackberries.

      The division is between morons who muh-berries-reee and non morons that comprehend how aggressively invasive and destructive these frickers are.

      A blackberry? I don't get it.

      Specifically the Himalayan blackberry--the native trailing are fine because they don't grow as fast and don't grow remotely close to as large as the Himalayans.

      It's literally just a provincial Washington or Oregon residence thinking they're thought and memes are universal

      >People who actually live around diverse biomes don't like fricking up diverse biomes with highly invasive plants
      Fun fact: you're moronic.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Clearly I was correct and struck a nerve.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >The division is between morons who muh-berries-reee and non morons that comprehend how aggressively invasive and destructive these frickers are.
        I love the berries and I want all those ghetto neighborhood shanties to also know how much I love them.

        Great to pick them, although i feel a bit bad i'm stealing all the birds fruit, at the same time horror when these grow in your own garden unchecked.

        Blackberries are not a crop you have to worry about leave gleanings for. They're maintenance free kosher plants.

        the joke is they are dividing people on either side of the brambles.
        because holy fricking hell these mofos are invasive. delicious, but invasive.

        >t oregonian with 7 acres, of which half is covered in these gays.

        Just cut and tarp. Don't worry, there's plenty left on any highway median.

        My old Bernese used to strip the whole plant, leaves, thorns, berries, and all, when he got a hankering for them.

        >My old Bernese used to strip the whole plant
        I know they're big chonkers, but damn he must have been part deer too if he could chew on them without issue.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Doesn't care about environmental impact at all
          >It's soo yummy!
          indeed you are a moronic urbanite that probably loves soda and McDonald's.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Doesn't care about environmental impact at all
            They grow so well through the unmaintained concrete on Martin Luther King street. Don't you have some PVC products to shill for your micro (plastic) greens or something? Yes you care so much about the environment that you would rather see me buy mcdonalds then plant blabckberry bushes. Talk about lost priorities.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Incoherent wordspew
              Feel bad about being moronic.

              These aren't nearly as much of a problem as english vines in the PNW. They mostly only grow in distrubed and populated areas, I never see them on hikes just in neighborhoods. I enjoy them more now, alongside our other native Rubus.

              Ask me how I know you're a Puget sound dwelling moron. These thrive in the lowlands and are all around the Olympic peninsula all the way down into Oregon. Himalayan blackberries and Ivy are the two most invasive species in the region. Nothing you city morons love more than moving to rural areas, cutting down the trees, and introducing invasive species than justifying their moronation (like you just did) with their ignorance.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                You actually don't know what you're talking about. Himalayan blackberries don't have nearly the ecological impact as many other invasive plants. They are a class C noxious weed.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >t. puget sound moron confirmed
                Yes, the political committee in Seattle decided not to create massive expenditures for the timber industry with shit science and good goy like you don't question any of it.
                If the EPA did its job it would be illegal to farm lumber in a temperate rainforest like the subhumans in the Congo and Amazon. They intentionally miscategorize endangered species as well and for the same reason.
                You don't know anything about Washington or science.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Endangered species have been the biggest opponent to the lumber industry in the area. What science are you quoting that claims that blackberries are the worst invasive plants in the area? You are a poltard conspiracy theorist.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yes, he is.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Brain dead seattleite continues to spew lumber industry propaganda
                You live on bell hill don't you? You clearly aren't the type of person who comprehends scientific publications else you'd realize how moronic you sound.

                >huge thorns: prevents trampling
                >unpalatable leaves: prevents defoliation
                >juicy, attractive berries full of seeds: increases area

                Himalayan Blackberries are absolutely s-tier invasives

                City morons have no idea. The thickets spread aggressively from urban areas and the entire Olympic peninsula is ringed by urban areas and clear cuts. The timber industries and private land developers absolutely don't report or care about invasive species that's why that city moron doesn't comprehend anything.

                Yes, he is.

                Ok Don lemon, tell us more about how clearcutting prevents forest fires.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Blackberries grow primarily in disturbed areas. Other invasives are more dangerous to forested areas and difficult to remove. Maybe you don't actually go PrepHole and just walk around the neighborhood. I'm sure you see lots of blackberries there.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Grow primarily in disturbed areas
                Lamo--you don't understand anything but..
                Ok moron, now look at the aerial photos of WA state and see all the fricking clear cuts?
                You seattlites are beyond moronic. Your argument supports everything I just said and outlines how detached you are from reality.

                I almost guarantee you aren't a native Seattleite but you're obviously very dumb.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                this, 100%
                that's what happened on my land, W clear cut it in like 2008, then replanted. by the time we bought it in 2019 it had a ton of 20' foot trees, but every clearing was completely infested with blackberries, and the foot every tree has canes climbing up the branches.

                when a forest is logged, there's enough light at ground level, and invasive shit takes over. it takes a few years for the trees to get tall enough after reprod to block out enough light .. but after this, at least once you clear the understory it doesn't grow back.

                i like blackberries just fine, but they're wienerblocking my morel's, and i'm not okay with this.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                It's a travesty how they treat the lowland temperate rainforests...the little that is left.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                also
                the pnw has several species of native blackberries (and other berries) that are bountiful and delicious (and free).

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Specifically the Himalayan blackberry--the native trailing are fine because they don't grow as fast and don't grow remotely close to as large as the Himalayans.
                >[...]
                You forgot to mention the native black berries taste better too. Humalayan's are only good for jams and jelly's.

                The PNW has a shit ton of berries in general. Two types of huckleberries, Oregon grapes, two types of elderberry, I think there are at least three types of trailing blackberries, thimbleberries, salmon berries, wild strawberries, several types of blueberries, cranberries, currents... and the less popular but still edible ones--salal, snowberries, twin-berries and you can even eat yew berries if you spit out the seeds.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Specifically the Himalayan blackberry--the native trailing are fine because they don't grow as fast and don't grow remotely close to as large as the Himalayans.
        >

        It's literally just a provincial Washington or Oregon residence thinking they're thought and memes are universal


        You forgot to mention the native black berries taste better too. Humalayan's are only good for jams and jelly's.

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Great to pick them, although i feel a bit bad i'm stealing all the birds fruit, at the same time horror when these grow in your own garden unchecked.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      The birds do not consider the berries to be their private property, that's us. They can always find more berries as long as people respect the environment and do not take more than they need. It grows back.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        And the ecology is complex. Certain animals harm the environment, so hunting them is a way to protect the environment. Down here it's the kudzu, which just grows super fast and covers everything. However, it's not useless. It's used as a medicine to stop alcohol cravings for alcoholics, as it contains medicinal alkaloids. Typically a concentrated extract.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          I've actually been thinking about making some kudzu extract to mix with local legal hemp extract, to treat withdrawal symptoms for recovering alcoholics. I think it could be a very effective medicine to give to people with alcoholism. Stops the cravings, treats the withdrawal.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >The birds do not consider the berries to be their private property
        commie scum

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      the dinosaurs had their time

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Only if you live in the north west.

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    A blackberry? I don't get it.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      they spread everywhere and form impenetrable dense thickets

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Unlike other plants that do the exact same thing...? I still don't understand why this is supposed to be divisive. I've never heard anyone argue about blackberries.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          It's literally just a provincial Washington or Oregon residence thinking they're thought and memes are universal

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Tbh.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >iai

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          most plants dont form brambles idiot

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          the joke is they are dividing people on either side of the brambles.
          because holy fricking hell these mofos are invasive. delicious, but invasive.

          >t oregonian with 7 acres, of which half is covered in these gays.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Doesn't own atleast a propane flamethrower
            you're doing it all wrong

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            7 acres, so you at least have a decent lawn tractor. Cut them down with the mower deck

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        oh no an edible sweet berry spreads too much, how horrid

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          you're ignoring the razor sharp vines that choke out everything else.
          but yes, at least there's an upside to them compared to something like kudzu or hispanics

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            You can eat kudzu dumb dumb. Or turn it into meat.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Kudzu grows from Florida to New Jersey, and as far west as West Virginia and East Texas. However, a small patch of it has been found in Clackamas County, Oregon. No one is sure where it came from.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              You should getting a better info source. It's all over Maine.
              It's causing problems with fiddle head harvesting.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Let’s say hypothetically I wanted to bring it to California, Oregon, or Washington because I fricking despise the left coast. Would it cause harm?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                no cause they would appreciate a new species to increase the somewhat lacking biodiversity of the region

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >invasive species elucidated
            ...I need you to dial back your power level display sir. Goatheads and how they got to the USA is... well, I only have so many ways to ban evade homojannemanhomosexuals obsessed with subhuman wieners.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              I don't have the words to describe my hate for goatheads.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >the razor sharp vines
            get your work glove on you b***h
            >choke out everything else
            choke out yourself c**t

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              you edgy little zoomer.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                thats DOOMER to you, c**t

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            the vines are by no definition, razor sharp. they are more of a gripping thorn like a tiny rose thorn rather than a frick off and die actually razor sharp opuntia thorn. If you have even the most mediocre of workgloves and a little dexterity, they are quite easy to pull out. their little chutes are connected so well to the mother plant that you can basically just yank entire canes and roots out when you pull on it.

            People need to quit b***hing and moaning and just learn how to manage them. They are not a weed because no weed could possibly give the most delicious fruit; better than 99% of the nicest, fanciest produce department. It's a weed in the same way that a catfish is a pest.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >gloves
              oh shit, why didn't I think of that? god dammit anon, you saved the day.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Catfish are reigonal and live in water you inbred mutt, they can't hop out of a lake to infest a neighboring lake. You subhumans always prioritize your personal gratification over environment.

              Himalayan blackberries are cancer loved by subhumans and morons.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Just for that drivel, I'm going to seed bomb as much blackberry as I can this year.
                You can frick off back to yurop or whatever sad place your kind spawned, ya invasive species.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I am the invasive species
                already knew that, Juan

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                And yet the same species of catfish are found in completely isolated waterways across the entire continent. They are getting there the same way every invasive species gets there. FRICKING BIRBS.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          hush, adults are speaking

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        never had a problem with rubus shrubs, though i live in a climate where they don't do particularly well and the native ones are more prolific. i always like eating them when i find them out bush

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Always happy to see one of these. Aside from the berries, you can make surprisingly good tea out of the leaves.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Tea from the leaves? How’s the flavor

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I want to grow either blackberry, or raspberry, or black raspberry in my yard. The species native to Eastern US. Which should I plant?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      raspberry

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    They grow near me but I never get any because my dog eats all the berries. He goes crazy on them, like a bear, and he can get the tall ones cuz he's an Irish wolfhound so he's tall

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      My old Bernese used to strip the whole plant, leaves, thorns, berries, and all, when he got a hankering for them.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        My poodle does this with blueberries. Luckily there's more there he could eat and lots.of highbush

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Does enchanted super berry real?
    =/

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      does 4 times more juicy enchanted super berry as in ops pic real or not? =/

  9. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Damn that red part looks like my butthole right now

  10. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    As a landscaper with the registered pesticide certificate as a landscaper, I get called to spray for these damn things a lot. First you have to cut it back at this time of year until it's nothing but little stubs so they can grow for a few months then you use glyphosate mixed with some trimix for added Vigor to kill them. Selden get any of it growing back but they will grow back from seeds since they're usually ubiquitous and old flashes

  11. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    These aren't nearly as much of a problem as english vines in the PNW. They mostly only grow in distrubed and populated areas, I never see them on hikes just in neighborhoods. I enjoy them more now, alongside our other native Rubus.

  12. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >most divisive plant
    You spelled "tasty" wrong.

  13. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The only divisive thing about them is that I won't share with anyone, they are all mine.

  14. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >huge thorns: prevents trampling
    >unpalatable leaves: prevents defoliation
    >juicy, attractive berries full of seeds: increases area

    Himalayan Blackberries are absolutely s-tier invasives

  15. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >live in the PNW
    yeah

  16. 11 months ago
    Anonymous
  17. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    They can drown every god dammed plant in the country and use it for compost for all I care. This plant actually does something.

  18. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    How do thimbleberries taste?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      less tart than most other wild berries
      drier ouyet texture--slightly fuzzy
      seeds are small and numerous
      fall apart easily when ripe

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Sounds terrible. The best thing about berries is the tartness.

  19. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I collect them as they ripen and then freeze them until I have enough to make preserves

  20. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    These frickers killed my mother. Little scratch, got infected, severe allergic reaction to antibiotics. From mostly fine to braindead in a couple of hours.

  21. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    and somehow I can't start a cutting of it to save my life

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