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1. The latin name for the common Blackberry is Rubus fruticosus, although there are hundreds of micro species.

2. In botanical terminology, the fruit is not a berry, but an aggregate fruit of numerous drupelets.

3. Some varieties have more dietary fibre, weight for weight, than wholemeal bread.

4. In the south west of England it was believed that the first blackberry spotted growing each year would banish warts

5. Superstition in the UK holds that blackberries should not be picked after Michaelmas (29 September) as the devil has claimed them, having left a mark on the leaves by urinating on them.

6. There is evidence that blackberries were eaten in Britain in Neolithic times.

7. The thornless blackberries cane was first developed at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK.

8. The worlds only blackberry store is in Michigan, but it only sells the mobile device not fruit.

9. Native Americans made fiber, obtained from the stem, it was used to make a strong twine.

10. Blackberries can be used to make wine, flavour gin, and or course blackberry and apple jam.