Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts, Grains, Berries - Boysenberry

Boysenberry Color 95 - #873260

A boysenberry is a cross between a European Raspberry, a Common Blackberry, and a Loganberry. It is a large 8.0g/0.28oz aggregate fruit, with large seeds and a deep maroon color.

In the late 1920s, George M. Darrow of the USDA began tracking down reports of a large, reddish-purple berry that had been grown on the northern California farm of a man named Rudolph Boysen. Darrow enlisted the help of Walter Knott, a Southern California farmer who was known as a berry expert. Knott had never heard of the new berry, but he agreed to help Darrow in his search.

Walter Knott was the first to commercially cultivate the berry in southern California. He began selling the berries at his farm stand in 1932 and soon noticed that people kept returning to buy the large, tasty berries. His family's small restaurant and pie business eventually grew into Knott's Berry Farm.