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Boysenberries {Rubus ursinus × idaeus}

An old photo that I managed to find.

 

All through my growing up years, "Boysenberry" is always an intriguing flavour, usually offered in ice creams in Singapore that I never has a chance to see or taste the fruit.....and it remains an elusively and enigmatic exotic fruit.

 

I finally found them in Melbourne during the summer months when berries are in abundance.

 

From Wikipedia, a Boysenberry (博伊森莓) was defined as a cross between a European Raspberry (Rubus idaeus), a Common Blackberry (Rubus fruticosus), and a Loganberry (Rubus × loganobaccus).

 

Having tasted them, they reminded me of raspberries, except, they are a tad more more acidic/sourish, more fruity-green and has a slight grape-like sweetness to them.

 

Boysenberry is mysterious enigma no more.

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Uploaded on February 10, 2013
Taken on December 22, 2008