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an accidental love child of raspberry and blackberry, born from a botanist's happy mistake
means A dark red, tart-sweet berry that's a hybrid of a raspberry and a blackberry, grown on a trailing bramble.
from Named for James Harvey Logan, a 19th-century American horticulturist and judge in California whose experimental garden produced the unexpected cross around 1881 — the berry simply took his surname, plus the all-purpose '-berry' suffix (from Old English 'berie,' the ancient word for any small fruit).
- named after
- James Logan, who bred it by accident in 1881
- the hybrid
- blackberry crossed with red raspberry
- too fragile
- too soft to ship, rarely sold fresh
- loganberry juice
- a beloved drink across Western New York
- deep red
- darkens to purple-red when fully ripe