COLOMBIA’S GIFT TO AMERICAN PLANT BREEDERS 
A Colombian Highlander Holding Up an Armful of the Giant Blackberry of the Rain 
Forest of Fusagasuga 
This remarkable species does not form compact bushes but sends up scattered shoots from 
underground stems. It is half climbing in habit, its stems reaching to a height of ten 
feet. At the base of each leaf is a pair of clasping stipules which distinguish it from other 
species. The flower clusters (terminal racemes) rarely carry more than five flowers and 
often only one fruit is set. In the photograph the berries are scarcely more than half 
grown. Photograph by Wilson Popenoe, October 1920. (Frontispiece.) 
