Moras, but not zarzamoras

 On the south bank across from West Point of Memorial Island are a few flowering berry bushes. Moras, but not zarzamoras.

They are Southern dewberries, not blackberries. The canes look alike, but dewberries blossom and bear earlier. The flowers are white with five petals.

Rubus trivialis is the dewberry, while Rubus argutus is the blackberry.

The stems of the dewberries, in the first year, are called primocanes and are sterile. In the second year, they are floricanes, meaning they have flowers. They tend to bend back toward the ground and root from the tips. The first flowers I saw were on May 28. And they won’t last long.