Wineberry or Wine Raspberry
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Scroll down for a photo of the opened buds. Wineberry is a perennial shrub with long arching canes (stems) up to 9 feet in length. Leaves are alternate and each has three serrated leaflets. Ripe berries are bright red and edible. Canes, leaf stems, and flowering structures are densely covered with purplish-red hairs and small spines. The hairs can give the canes a furry, reddish appearance when seen from a distance. The undersides of leaves appear white, due to a layer of wooly white hairs.