Ribes moupinense — Edible Plant Database

What to Eat

Edible parts: Fruit

The fruit are eaten fresh and used to prepare local wine.

Where to Find It

It is a temperate plant. In central China it grows on high mountain slopes between 1,400-4,700 m above sea level. It grows in Sichuan and Yunnan in China.

Asia, China, Tibet,

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 shrub. It grows 2-3 m tall. It does not have thorns. The leaves are oval or triangle shaped and 5-9 cm across. The fruit are round and black. They are 5-7 mm across.

Production

In Yunnan fruit are harvested from July to October.

Names & Synonyms

Hiangshen

References (2)

Flora of China @ efloras.org Volume 8
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

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