Rubus ferdinandimuelleri
Focke
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit
The fruit is 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.
Rubus ferdinandimuelleri: Thorny woody canes (brambles), aggregate berry made of many drupelets, berries pull easily from receptacle.
Where to Find It
It is a tropical plant. It has been recorded in Central Province in Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea, PNG,
How to Identify
A bramble. It grows 50 cm tall. The leaves have leaflets along the stalk. There are teeth along the edge. There are thorns on the leaf stalks and stems. The flowers are white. The fruit are green and turn red when ripe.
Notes
TROPICOS has Rubus ferdinandi Focke as an illegitimate name for Rubus ferdinandi-muelleri Focke
References (2)
- Plants of Papua New Guinea LAE herbarium record
- Reis, S. V. and Lipp, F. L., 1982, New Plant Sources for Drugs and Foods from the New York Botanical Garden herbarium. Harvard. p 105 (As Rubus ferdinandii)
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