TempoLife › Wild food and foraging guide › raspberry
Wild raspberry
Rubus idaeus — Excellent edible.
Never eat a wild mushroom or plant identified only from a website, book or app. Several deadly species look almost identical to edible ones, and mistakes can be fatal. Learn from an experienced forager in person, be certain of every specimen, and when in doubt, throw it out.
What it is
The wild raspberry is smaller and more aromatic than the cultivated kind and colonises sunny clearings and logged ground. The hollow, crumbly fruit that slips off its core is unmistakable and much loved by pickers of every age.
Where and when to find it
Clearings, forest edges and old cut-over ground. In season roughly July to September.
Look-alikes and safety
Raspberries and their bramble relatives are a safe group with no deadly European look-alike, though the thorny canes make for scratched arms.
Nutrition
About 52 kcal per 100 g, high in fibre. As with all wild food, the health value only matters once you are completely certain of a safe identification.
More wild foods
Blueberry (bilberry)
Excellent edible
Lingonberry
Edible, tart; keeps very well
Cranberry
Edible, very tart
Wild strawberry
Excellent edible
Cloudberry
Prized edible
Rowanberry
Edible only cooked; do not eat raw in quantity
Source: Edibility and look-alike notes follow standard mycological and botanical references for the region. This page is a starting reference, not an identification authority. · checked 2026-09-04
Frequently asked questions
When is wild raspberry in season?
July to September.
What can wild raspberry be confused with?
Raspberries and their bramble relatives are a safe group with no deadly European look-alike, though the thorny canes make for scratched arms.
Is wild raspberry edible?
Excellent edible — but only ever after positive, in-person identification.
Make the most of the season
TempoLife helps you log seasonal, wild and home-grown foods alongside everything else you eat.