Rubus papuanus
Schltr. ex Diels
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit
The ripe fruit are 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 papuanus: Thorny woody canes (brambles), aggregate berry made of many drupelets, berries pull easily from receptacle.
Where to Find It
It is a tropical plant. In PNG it is recorded in the Western Highlands in subalpine grassland.
Papua New Guinea, PNG,
How to Identify
A shrub. The stems are pink and have spikes. The leaves are twice divided. They are dark green above and mid green with spikes underneath. The fruit are green and red when ripe.
Notes
It is an unresolved name in The Plant List.
References (2)
- Plants of Papua New Guinea LAE herbarium record
- World Checklist of Useful Plant Species 2020. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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