BOYSENBERRY

a very large bramble fruit, usually considered, along with the loganberry and the youngberry, a variety of blackberry (Rubus ursinus). The dark, reddish black fruit is especially valued for canning and preserving. It is grown chiefly in the United States, in the South and Southwest and on the Pacific Coast from southern California into Oregon. The boysenberry was developed in the early 1920s by Rudolph Boysen (18951950) of Napa, Calif., who later turned it over to Walter Knott for commercial development (see Knott, Walter; and Knott, Cordelia).