Thimbleberry

Description:

A dense shrub with large leaves. This plant was about a meter tall (can grow to 2.5 mt tall). Large flowers with five white petals and numerous pale yellow stamens.

Habitat:

Spotted on the side of a road in the Cascade mountains.

Notes:

The plant produces edible composite fruit approximately a centimeter (0.4 inches) in diameter, which ripen to a bright red in mid to late summer. Like other raspberries it is not a true berry, but instead an aggregate fruit of numerous drupelets around a central core. The drupelets may be carefully removed separately from the core when picked, leaving a hollow fruit which bears a resemblance to a thimble, perhaps giving the plant its name. (Wikipedia).