- Rubus armeniacus Focke (plants.sc.egov.usda.gov)
Himalaya blackberry fruits are highly edible and commonly collected by berry pickers. The fruit can be canned, frozen, or eaten fresh (Francis 2003). Wildlife readily consumes the fruit as well. It was used in the development of the hybrid marionberry cultivar, ‘Marion’ (Waldo 1957).
- Fall Into The Wall (waterfallsnorthwest.com)
This small waterfall is situated immediately downstream of where Interstate 90 splits to opposite sides of the valley near Snoqualmie Pass. The South Fork of the Snoqualmie River plunges 22 feet into a small gorge and essentially slams into a wall which the river must circumvent by making a sharp horseshoe bend in the gorge. During low flow periods the falls will split into two segments. Should a safe method of crossing the river be found, an excellent view of the falls could be attained by climbing out on top of the “wall” that the river is so rudely interrupted by.
- Rubus armeniacus (Wikipedia)
Rubus armeniacus, the Himalayan blackberry or Armenian blackberry, is a species of Rubus in the blackberry group Rubus subgenus Rubus series Discolores (P.J. Müll.) Focke. It is native to Armenia and Northern Iran, and widely naturalised elsewhere. Both its scientific name and origin have been the subject of much confusion, with much of the literature referring to it as either Rubus procerus or Rubus discolor, and often mistakenly citing its origin as western European. Flora of North America, published in 2014, considers the taxonomy unsettled, and tentatively uses the older name Rubus bifrons.
