Blackberry

The blackberry; also called bramble, are a group of several hundred closely related berry species, native throughout the Northern Hemisphere. The fruit is an aggregate fruit of numerous drupelets ripening to a black or dark purple fruit, the "blackberry". Unmanaged mature plants form a tangle of dense arching stems, the branches rooting from the node tip when they reach the ground.

Blackberry production in Mexico has exploded in the past decade. In order to produce blackberries in Mexico where there is no winter chilling to stimulate flower bud development, application of growth regulators are used to bring the plants into bloom.