The Black Raspberry whose berries are harvested for jellies, juices and other foods. Black Raspberries are still used today. Black Raspberries are fruits. This is the believed cure; general tonic and astringent properties, dysentery. Purple back-stern archers completely over the other root tip. Blackberry is the common name for several of the fruits and plants of a genus of the rose family. The ripe fruit is an aggregate of small, purplish-black drupes attached to a cone shaped receptacle, which readily separates from the plant when the berries are picked. In other members of the genus, the receptacle separates from the drupes and remains on the plant. More than 24 species of blackberry are known, including several called dewberry and albino varieties called white blackberry. One of the most common species in the sow-teat blackberry. Although the blackberry was highly developed as a wild fruit, it was rarely grown as a garden fruit until about 1850. Since then, it has been widely cultivated and has become a major commercial crop. Blackberries belong to the genus Rubus of the family Rosaceae. The sow-teat blackberry is classifieds as Rubus allegheniensis. The blackberry, or bramble, is a evergreen or semi-evergreen shrub or woody-stemmed, climbing plant. It is often cultivated solely for its fruit, which is used in making jellies, jams, and liqueurs. Any of several woody plants of the genus Rubus, having cane like, usually thorny stems and black, grossy, edible berries. Any of various shrubby, usually prickly plants of the genus Rubus, bearing edible berries, such as Raspberry strigosus, of eastern North America, and Raspberry idaeus, of Europe. The fruit of the Raspberry, consisting of a mass of small, fleshy, usually red droplets. A moderate to dark or deep purplish red. Black Raspberry was a major killer in the Civil War. . This spring berry was used as ingredient in many foods during the Civil War.