Rubus chingii
H. H. Hu
Zhang ye fu pen zi
(c) Guanning Liu, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Guanning Liu
(c) Guanning Liu, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit
The sweet red fruit are eaten fresh or processed into jam, jelly, drinks, and wine.
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.
Zhang ye fu pen zi: Thorny woody canes (brambles), aggregate berry made of many drupelets, berries pull easily from receptacle.
Where to Find It
It is a temperate plant. In central China it grows between 500-1,000 m above sea level.
Asia, China, Japan,
How to Identify
A shrub. It can be creeping. It grows up to 3 m tall. The branches are green when young and red to brown when older. The leaves are simple and 5-11 cm long by 5-13 cm wide. There are about 5 lobes. The flowers occur singly at the ends of branches. The flowers are 3-4 cm across. The fruit is aggregate and red. It is up to 2 cm across.
Other Information
The fruit are popular.
References (1)
- Flora of China. www.eFloras.org Volume 9
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