Boysenberry
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Boysenberry is the common name for a hybrid plant of the Rubus genus derived from a blackberry and characterized bearing an very large fruit (8.0g), with large seeds and a deep maroon color. It is generally considered a cross between ***
The term boysenberry also is used for the fruit of this plant, which is aggregate fruit of numerous drupelets
Although its parentage is somewhat uncertain, it generally is considered to be a cross between a loganberry, a raspberry, and the Pacific blackberry (Smith 2008; Bender and Bender 2005; Herbst 2001; Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag His family's small restaurant and pie business eventually grew into Knott's Berry Farm.
In the late 1920s, George M. Darrow of the USDA began tracking down reports it had encountered of a large, reddish-purple berry that had been grown on a farm by a man named Rudolph Boysen.[2] He enlisted the help of Walter Knott, a Southern California farmer who was known as a berry expert. Knott hadn't heard of the new berry, but he agreed to help Darrow in his search for the berry.
Knott's Berry Farm
Darrow and Knott learned soon after that Rudolph Boysen had abandoned his growing experiments several years earlier and sold his farm. Undaunted by this news, Darrow and Knott headed out to Boysen's old farm, on which they found several frail vines surviving in a field choked with weeds. They transplanted the vines to Knott's farm where he nurtured them back to fruit-bearing health. Walter Knott's began selling the berries at his farm stand in 1935 and soon noticed that people kept returning to buy the large tasty berries. When asked what they were called, Knott said, "Boysenberries," after their originator.[3] As their popularity grew, Mrs. Knott began making preserves which ultimately made Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California world famous.
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- Bender, D. A., and A. E. Bender. 2005. A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198609612.
- Herbst, S. T. 2001. The New Food Lover's Companion: Comprehensive Definitions of Nearly 6,000 Food, Drink, and Culinary Terms. Barron's Cooking Guide. Hauppauge, NY: Barron's Educational Series. ISBN 0764112589.
- Oregon Raspberry & Blackberry Commission (ORBC). 2008. Oregon's raspberries and blackberries. Oregon Raspberry & Blackberry Commission. Retrieved May 6, 2008.
- Smith, S. E. 2008. What is a boysenberry. WiseGeek. Retrieved May 6, 2008.
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- ↑ Boysenberry Characteristics. Oregon Raspberry and Blackberry Commission. Retrieved 2008-02-22.
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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