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Raspberries grow like bushes with their erect canes, whereas dewberries – with fruits of a similar shape but not colour – growing in open spaces have shoots spreading on the ground. The stems and leaf stalks have prickly spines. In the shadowy undergrowth of forests the dewberry grows as a bush and it has much fewer spines – thus much depends on the location.

 

The dewberry fruits, aggregates of drupelets, are larger than those of the raspberry, the seed in each individual drupelet is larger too, and the taste is somewhat acid. Home-made jam or marmalade from the ripe, purplish-black fruits is a delicacy – but tastes differ.