Dutchmans pipe vs Flowering Raspberry - TreeTime.ca

Dutchmans pipe vs Flowering Raspberry

Aristolochia macrophylla

Rubus odoratus

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Dutchmans pipe
Flowering Raspberry

The Dutchman’s Pipe is a fast growing, deciduous, woody, climbing vine. Featuring large heart-shaped leaves that overlap and often hide the flowers. The Dutchman’s Pipe namesake comes from the long yellow-green, brown or purple flowers that flare at the end, resembling Dutch smoking pipes.

The Dutchman’s Pipe will make a great screen or shade in your urban landscape, but does require support from a trellis or a fence. To control the growth, cut back in late winter.

The Flowering Raspberry is an ornamental shrubby plant that blooms with fragrant light purple flowers throughout the summer and has a large, decorative foliage of bright green leaves. The flowers resemble that of a wildrose, and the foliage turns a bright yellow in the fall. This cultivar produces small red raspberries, similar to that of a thimbleberry, but the fruit is mostly tasteless.

The Flowering Raspberry, also known as Virginia Raspberry or Purple-Flowered Raspberry, makes a great hedge plant and is a good choice for attracting birds to your yard.

Dutchmans pipe Quick Facts

Flowering Raspberry Quick Facts

Zone: 4a
Zone: 3a
Height: 5 m (15 ft)
Height: 1.8 m (6 ft)
Spread: 5 m (15 ft)
Spread: 4 m (12 ft)
Moisture: any
Moisture: normal
Light: any
Light: any
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no
Berries: red to purple, seedy
Firmness: firm
Flavor: tasteless
Flowers: green/brown/ purple, pipe shaped
Flowers: purple
Bark: thornless orange
Growth rate: fast
Growth rate: fast
Life span: short
Life span: medium
Maintenance: medium
Maintenance: high
Suckering: low
Suckering: high



Toxicity: toxic/poisonous to people and animals

Other Names: broad leaf birthwort, pipevine, wild ginger
Other Names: purple-flowered raspberry, virginia raspberry