Types and Varieties

• The five most popular fruit varieties that grow on bushes are blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, currants and huckleberries. Gooseberries, kiwi and grapes are other examples.
  
  

Benefits

• You can control bush size through pruning and trellising, which makes harvesting and maintaining control of foragers like birds, squirrels and bats easier than with trees. Fruit-producing bushes also fit easily into traditional landscaping designs.
  
  

Challenges

• Many of the bushes that produce fruit also produce thorns, especially those bushes characterized by vine-like growth, such as blackberries and raspberries.
  
  

Fun Fact

• Although most often thought of as a vegetable, a tomato is, technically, a fruit. Therefore, since a couple of tomato varieties have been developed to be bush-like in their growth structure, you could argue that tomatoes are a bush fruit.
  
  

Did You Know?

• In dozens of studies conducted globally--including the Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging's study, "Dietary Antioxidants, Aging and Oxidative Stress Status"--fruits grown on bushes are excellent sources of vitamins. Those darkest in color have the highest concentration of antioxidants. Kiwis contain extremely high amounts of vitamin C.