Rubus depavitus
L. H. Bailey
Aberdeen dewberry
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Carnegie Museum of Natural History
What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit
The fruit (dewberries) 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.
Aberdeen dewberry: Thorny woody canes (brambles), aggregate berry made of many drupelets, berries pull easily from receptacle.
Where to Find It
It is a temperate plant.
How to Identify
A small shrub in the rose family (Rosaceae) native to temperate regions of North America and the USA. The fruit is edible.
Wikipedia
Source ↗Rubus depavitus is a North American species of dewberry, known as the Aberdeen dewberry. Like other dewberries, it is a species of flowering plant in the rose family, related to the blackberry. It is native to the east-central United States (Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey, Ohio, and West Virginia).
Names & Synonyms
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