Rubus hexagynus — Edible Plant Database

What to Eat

Edible parts: Fruit, Leaves

The fruit is eaten and the leaves are chewed.

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 hexagynus

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

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

It is a subtropical plant.

Asia, Himalayas, India, Myanmar, Northeastern India, SE Asia,

A subtropical shrub in the Rosaceae family.

Names & Synonyms

Ta hinch

Rubus pyrifolius Hook.f. & Thomson ex Hook.f.

References (2)

Murtem, G. & Chaudhrey, P., 2016, An ethnobotanical note on wild edible plants of Upper Eastern Himalaya, India. Brazilian Journal of Biological Sciences, 2016, v. 3, no. 5, p. 63-81
Reis, S. V. and Lipp, F. L., 1982, New Plant Sources for Drugs and Foods from the New York Botanical Garden herbarium. Harvard. p 106 (As Rubus pyrifolius)