*Due to a severe crop shortage of organic blueberries this season, this product will be out of stock until Spring 2008.

PEAR BLACKBERRY 7.6 oz

Ingredients- organic pear puree, organic blackberries, organic sugar, organic lemon juice, currant liqueur

Shrubs from the genus Rubus are typically found to be dense and prickly. The term, "bramblebush", captures this well-known characteristic that sometimes confers a weed-like status to these plants.  The blackberry thrives in open, sunny locations. Its opportunistic, invasive character allows it to take over sites where native vegetation has been removed.  Because of rapid clearing of land for cultivation, there are more blackberries in the United States than existed at the start of  European colonization.

One species that is native to the western United States, Rubus ursinus , has a small intensely flavorful berry.  Its Latin name conveys the observation that it is irresistable to bears.  Rubus ursinus is one of several trailing, ground-running species that are plentiful on the wet, west side of the Cascade and the northern Sierra mountain ranges.  The other major grouping of blackberries consists of erect varieties with arched canes.  These varieties thrive in colder, more arid environments.   

Commonly cultivated "blackberries" such as Logan-, Boysen-, and Tay-berries are crosses between blackberries and raspberries.

The dewberries constitute a variety of trailing blackberry plants that are prevalent in England.