Rubus sapindus — Edible Plant Database

What to Eat

Edible parts: Fruit

The fruit is eaten.

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 sapindus

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

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

It is a tropical plant.

Central America, Mexico, Nicaragua,

Countries: Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador

A tropical shrub in the Rosaceae family.

The name is ambiguous.

Names & Synonyms

Moritas, Zarzamora

References (3)

Kermath, B. M., et al, 2014, Food Plants in the Americas: A survey of the domesticated, cultivated and wild plants used for Human food in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. On line draft. p 765
Piedra-Malagón, E. M., et al, 2022, Edible native plants of the Gulf of Mexico Province. Biodiversity Data Journal 10: e80565 p 28
Segura, S., et al, 2018, The edible fruit species in Mexico. Genet Resour Crop Evol (2018) 65:1767–1793