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Hi I think I may have found a tayberry plant on my allotment, I think I may have cut down last years growth in April thinking it must be a bramble. it has sprouted a really long branch of new growth nad I am wondering if it is a tayberry? the brach is very spiney and so are the undersides of the leaves. it doesn't reaaly look like a bramble (pulled out enough of those in my time the spines on the leves are fine and abundant.)

so do I leave it and see what happens to  this years growth next year maybe it will friut?
Nora

Tayberry has many more spines than blackberry, but none as long and vicious.

Quote from: galina on August 10, 2012, 20:26:40
Tayberry has many more spines than blackberry, but none as long and vicious.

Which makes the tayberry worse because you can't put your fingers between them! I would say that a blackberry has thorns and a tayberry spines.

Quote from: Paulh on August 10, 2012, 22:15:15

Quote from: galina on August 10, 2012, 20:26:40
Tayberry has many more spines than blackberry, but none as long and vicious.

Which makes the tayberry worse because you can't put your fingers between them! I would say that a blackberry has thorns and a tayberry spines.

Gardening glove on left hand holding, bare fingers on right hand picking is my solution (I am right handed). Yes - I know what you mean  ;D

There is now a thornless tayberry. 

I like them but I am very allergic to the scratches.

My Tayberry has a more elongated fruit shape

I think I have a tayberry blackberry x- very vigorous and long black fruit. I thought tayberries were redder- more like loganberries. Anyway I have to curl the branches /runners to fit in the space against the fence.Had a good crop now I've covered them with enviromesh.... ;). Maybe it is still a tayberiie but I thought it was killed when the garden was 'made over'.. ::)