Sweet, succulent blackberries are summer delicacies in the northern temperate regions. As in raspberries, they too grow on shrubs known as "brambles". The plant is native to sub-arctic Europe, and now-a-days grown at commercial scale in North America, particularly in the USA, to as far as Siberia.
Binomially, brambles are a small perennial shrubs belonging to the vast Rosaceae family of bush berries, in the genus: Rubus. Botanical name: Rubus fruticosus.