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Is blackberry the same as mulberry? What is the difference?
Blackberry, aggregate fruit, Rosaceae, Lepidoptera. Mulberry, chrysanthemum fruit, Moraceae. They are similar in appearance, different in essence and quite different in taste.

Blackberry fruit is aggregate fruit, and small black or purple drupe grows on juicy receptacle.

Blackberry belongs to the genus Rubus (shrub) of Rosaceae, which is mainly native to the north temperate zone of the old and new continents, especially in the eastern part of North America and the Pacific coast. It is a common budding forest and hedge plant in the British Isles and Western Europe. Usually biennial, the stems are erect, semi-erect or climbing, with thorns, and some cultivated species have no thorns. The leaves are trifoliate or palmately compound, with broad oval leaflets, petioles and thick teeth on the leaf margin, and most of them overwinter. Inflorescence terminal, with white, pink or red flowers. The fruit is aggregate fruit, and small black or reddish-purple drupes are planted on juicy receptacle.

Mulberry is the mature fruit of Mulberry, also known as Mulberry Fruit and Mulberry Bubble.

Mulberry is a kind of aggregated flower and fruit, which consists of many small drupes. It is rectangular, with a length of 2 ~ 3 cm and a diameter of 1.2 ~ 1.8 cm. Yellow-brown, reddish brown to deep purple, (rare color is milky white when ripe), and the fruit stalk is short. Drupe is ovoid, slightly flat, about 2mm long and 65438±0mm wide, with 4 fleshy perianth outside. The smell is slightly sour and sweet, and farmers like to eat its ripe fresh fruit, which is one of the fruits that people often eat. Mature mulberries are oily, sweet and sour, especially large, thick, purple and full of sugar. From April to June every year, the fruit is harvested when it is ripe, impurities are removed, dried or slightly steamed, eaten after drying, or soaked in wine. The specific maturity time varies from place to place, with the south being earlier and the north being later.