Blackberry flowers
Image by Martin LaBar
Just some blackberry (Rubus) flowers, taken in May of this year, alongside a road in our town. Blackberries are members of the Rose family, and, as such, their flower parts are in multiples of five, and their petals are not attached to each other, which means that they can fall off one at a time.
In our area, blackberries are characteristic of secondary ecological succession. That is, a lawn or field left to itself usually begins to grow blackberry plants in a few years. The plants grow up to 2 or 3 meters/yards in height. The flowers are perhaps an inch/3 cm across.
Note that there are a couple of flower buds. The white color is lovely, but the almost-opened buds are a lovely pink.
Blackberry fruit are edible. Here’s a photo of some ripe blackberry fruit (they were good to eat!).
Those are blackberry leaves in the background on the left. Here’s one of our most beautiful photos, showing a blackberry leaf in fall color, along the Blue Ridge Parkway, with mountains in the background.
More detail visible at the larger sizes.
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Excellent Capture !
its beautiful martin,,,i like the way you manage the light shade
To any piece of your artwork. I find beauty integrated. And accuracy in performance. The end of the work beauty. Greetings to you..
The photo is good with slightly harsh light. The description is highly informative and nice.
So cool,love the definition on the petals,well done,
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Playing the light perfectly !!!
Fabulous……Martin!!!
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excellent shot
aww gr8 work
Beautiful shot. They self-seed in our garden, and are currently trying to take over, but they are SO delicious straight from the plant!
They beautiful!!!
It´s a beutiful picture! I have never seen those berries!!
Beautiful look back at spring.
Fine details.
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Splendid!!!
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very nice sunny day for you there, Martin! the whities there shining brightly!
Lovely shot. Blackberries are classed as a noxious weed in Aust. now, they poison them…so sad….we used to make the best jam when I was younger.
Beautiful flowers of this blackberry plant. Excellent fruits.
I love the delicate texture and beautiful colour of the petals.
I love wild blackberries… we used to have them in our back yard in our old house. They tasted super delicious, sweet and tart. After we move to new house, I planted cultivated thournless blackberiries but the taste is not the same. 
excellent shot!!
Wonderful capture ! Thanks for sharing.
Hey Where’s the fruit Martin?
Brilliant detail in this photo – I am enjoying the fruits right now, freely available at the bottom of our garden. Nothing quite like them!
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great texture on the petals captured – I can feel it!
Very nice shot.
Lovely flowers shot with good control of WB
Gorgeous macro.Wonderful flowers,colors and dof. Well done Martin
have a wonderful friday ahead my friend
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Such beautiful flowers.
You should have talked to him. Whether he knew you or not, he would have enjoyed talking to you. :0)
awesome…….lovely flowers !