Rubus alnifoliatus — Edible Plant Database

Dangerous Lookalikes

This plant can be confused with the following toxic species. Always verify identification carefully before consuming any wild plant.

DEADLY

Red Baneberry

Actaea rubra

SAFE

Rubus alnifoliatus

Red Baneberry: Short herbaceous plant (no thorns), berries on thick red stems, each berry has a single seed, compound sharply-toothed leaves.

Rubus alnifoliatus: Thorny woody canes (brambles), aggregate berry made of many drupelets, berries pull easily from receptacle.

Where to Find It

It is a subtropical plant. It grows at low to medium elevations in Taiwan.

Asia, Taiwan,

Countries: United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Brunei, Bhutan, China, Georgia, Indonesia, Israel, India, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, North Korea, South Korea, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Laos, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Mongolia, Maldives, Malaysia, Nepal, Oman, Philippines, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Syria, Thailand, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Taiwan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen

How to Identify

A small erect shrub. It has a few prickles. The leaves have 7-9 leaflets with one at the end. The leaflets are narrowly oval to sword shaped and 5-10 cm long by 2-4 cm wide. There are many flowers in a group and the petals are white. The fruit is aggregate and red when ripe. They are 0.8-1.4 cm across.

Names & Synonyms

Possibly Rubus fraxinifolius

References (2)

Flora of China @ efloras.org Volume 9
Kuo, W. H. J., (Ed.) Taiwan's Ethnobotanical Database (1900-2000), http://tk.agron.ntu.edu.tw/ethnobot/DB1.htm

Dangerous Lookalikes

Where to Find It

How to Identify

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