What is Tayberry?
[[File:Tayberry.jpg|thumb|250px|A tayberry]] [[File:Carving of a Tayberry, on the banks of the River Tay in Perth.jpg|thumb|upright|Carving of a Tayberry, on the banks of the [[River Tay]] in Perth]] A '''tayberry''' is a cross between a [[blackberry]] and a red [[raspberry]]. The genetic cross was [[patent]]ed in 1979. It is a cultivated [[shrub]] in the genus ''Rubus'' of the family Rosaceae. It was named after the [[River Tay]] in [[Scotland]]. The fruit is sweeter, much larger, and more [[scent|aroma]]tic than that of the [[loganberry]]. The loganberry is itself a blackberry and red raspberry cross. The fruit do not pick easily by hand and cannot be machine harvested. They have not become a commercially grown berry crop. This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=4923|title=Rubus Tayberry Group (F)|work=rhs.org.uk}}{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{-}} [[Category:Rubus]]