Rubus fellatae
A. Chev.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
MBG
MBG
What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit
The sweet fruit is 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.
Rubus fellatae: Thorny woody canes (brambles), aggregate berry made of many drupelets, berries pull easily from receptacle.
Where to Find It
A tropical plant. It grows in mountain regions in West Africa. In Nigeria it is recorded at 1,660 m above sea level.
Africa, Guinea, Guinée, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, West Africa,
How to Identify
A scrambling bush or shrub. The fruit is a composite fruit like a raspberry and is orange-red. It can be 1.5 cm long. It is sweet and edible.
Notes
There are about 250 Rubus species.
References (7)
- Burkill, H. M., 1985, The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4. Kew.
- Chapman, J. D. & Chapman, H. M., 2001, The Forest Flora of Taraba and Andamawa States, Nigeria. WWF & University of Canterbury. p 196
- Dalziel, 1937,
- Flora of China @ efloras.org Volume 9
- Jardin, C., 1970, List of Foods Used In Africa, FAO Nutrition Information Document Series No 2.p 159
- JSTOR Global Plants edible
- Peters, C. R., O'Brien, E. M., and Drummond, R.B., 1992, Edible Wild plants of Sub-saharan Africa. Kew. p 167
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