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a blackberry-raspberry love child too delicate to survive a supermarket shelf.
means A dark red cultivated berry, a cross between a blackberry and a red raspberry, prized for its sweet-tart flavor and notoriously soft, hard-to-transport fruit.
from Named for the River Tay in Scotland, where the hybrid was bred and released in the late 1970s. It follows the Scottish berry-naming tradition of the loganberry and others before it — a cross christened after the water that ran near its birthplace.
- named for
- Scotland's River Tay, near its 1979 birthplace
- hybrid parents
- blackberry crossed with red raspberry
- too soft
- bruises easily, so rarely sold commercially
- thorns or not
- a Buckingham thornless version exists too
- flavor
- sweeter and tarter than either parent