Vitis popenoei
J. L. Fennell
(c) Marcelo Alí Martínez-Guerra, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Marcelo Alí Martínez-Guerra
(c) Marcelo Alí Martínez-Guerra, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Marcelo Alí Martínez-Guerra
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.
Canadian Moonseed: No tendrils, single crescent/moon-shaped seed, leaf stem attaches to underside of leaf.
Vitis popenoei: Vine with tendrils, round seeds, leaf stem at edge of leaf, bark that peels.
Where to Find It
It is a tropical plant.
Mexico, North America,
How to Identify
A tropical vine in the Vitaceae family with edible fruit.
Wikipedia
Source ↗Vitis popenoei, commonly called the totoloche, or totoloche grape, is a New World species of liana in the grape family native to Belize, Mexico (Chiapas, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Puebla, Tabasco, Veracruz, and eastern Querétaro), and north-central Guatemala (Alta Verapaz).
Names & Synonyms
Totoloche, Uva zorilla
References (1)
- Segura, S., et al, 2018, The edible fruit species in Mexico. Genet Resour Crop Evol (2018) 65:1767–1793
