Rubus assamensis
Focke
Fikteging
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(c) Shiqi Zhou, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Shiqi Zhou
What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit
The ripe fruit are eaten fresh.
Dangerous Lookalikes
This plant can be confused with the following toxic species. Always verify identification carefully before consuming any wild plant.
Red Baneberry: Short herbaceous plant (no thorns), berries on thick red stems, each berry has a single seed, compound sharply-toothed leaves.
Fikteging: Thorny woody canes (brambles), aggregate berry made of many drupelets, berries pull easily from receptacle.
Where to Find It
It is a subtropical plant. In southern China it grows on the edges of forests between 1,400-3,000 m above sea level. It grows in Sichuan and Yunnan in China.
Asia, China, India, Indochia, Myanmar, Northeastern India, SE Asia, Tibet, Vietnam,
How to Identify
A climbing shrub. It has small curved prickles. The leaves are simple with lobes. They are 6-11 cm long by 4-6 cm wide. There are many flowers in a group in the axils of leaves or at the ends of branches. They are white. The fruit is aggregate and red but turning black when ripe. They are 8 mm across.
Production
In Yunnan fruit are available in August and September.
Notes
There are about 250 Rubus species.
Names & Synonyms
Chyaga, Dum Assam, Hongpai, Retsu, Yogde
References (9)
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- Altschul, S.V.R., 1973, Drugs and Foods from Little-known Plants. Notes in Harvard University Herbaria. Harvard Univ. Press. Massachusetts. no. 1426
- Dobriyal, M. J. R. & Dobriyal, R., 2014, Non Wood Forest Produce an Option for Ethnic Food and Nutritional Security in India. Int. J. of Usuf. Mngt. 15(1):17-37
- Flora of China @ efloras.org Volume 9
- Ju, Y., et al, 2013, Eating from the wild: diversity of wild edible plants used by Tibetans in Shangri-la region, Yunnan, China, Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethno medicine 9:28
- Singh, V. B., et al, (Ed.) Horticulture for Sustainable Income and Environmental Protection. Vol. 1 p 219
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