Rubus neoebudicus
Gillaumin
Chi Chi
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit
The fruit are eaten.
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.
Chi Chi: Thorny woody canes (brambles), aggregate berry made of many drupelets, berries pull easily from receptacle.
Where to Find It
A tropical plant. In Papua New Guinea it occurs in New Britain and New Ireland. It grows between 600-1,700 m above sea level.
Pacific, Papua New Guinea, PNG, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu,
How to Identify
A bramble or straggling herb. It grows 4 m tall. The stems have short hairs. The leaves have 5 leaflets spread out like fingers on a hand. Sometimes the upper leaves only have 3 leaflets. The leaf stalk is 2-5 cm long. The end leaflet is 8-14 cm long by 2-4 cm wide. The flowers are on branched stalks with 8 flowers on side stalks. The fruit are red. They are oval and 1 cm across.
Notes
There are about 250 Rubus species. Collected from San Cristobel, Makira by Brass. It is an unresolved name in The Plant List. PROSEA gives Rubus brassii as a synonym of Rubus neo-ebudicus Gillaumin.
Names & Synonyms
References (4)
- Altschul, S.V.R., 1973, Drugs and Foods from Little-known Plants. Notes in Harvard University Herbaria. Harvard Univ. Press. Massachusetts. no. 1431 (As Rubus brassii)
- Flora malesiana
- French, B.R., 2010, Food Plants of Solomon Islands. A Compendium. Food Plants International Inc. p 243 (As Rubus brassii)
- Merrill & Perry, L.M., 1940, J. Arnold Arbor. 21: 182 (As Rubus brassii)
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