thimbleberry n shrubby raspberry of eastern North America having showy rose to purplish flowers and red or orange thimble-shaped fruit n white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries n raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit Synonym(s) flowering raspberry purple-flowering raspberry Rubus odoratus salmonberry salmon berry Rubus parviflorus black raspberry blackcap blackcap raspberry Rubus occidentalis
News & Articles thimbleberry It's thimbleberry time Mark Wilcox/Daily Mining Gazette The Keweenaw’s signature wild edible, the thimbleberry, is ripe and ready for picking, as shown in this photo taken this week in the city of Houghton. Aug. 9, 2013 - The Daily Mining Gazette