Rubus roribaccus
Rydb.
North American Dewberry
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit
The fruit is edible.
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.
North American 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.
Australia, North America, USA,
How to Identify
A trailing shrub in the Rosaceae family found in temperate regions. It is cultivated for its fruit.
Wikipedia
Source ↗Rubus roribaccus is a North American species of dewberry in the genus Rubus, a member of the rose family. It is commonly known as Lucretia dewberry and velvet-leaf dewberry. It grows in eastern Canada (Québec) and the eastern and central United States (from New York and Massachusetts south to the Carolinas and west as far as Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska).
Other Information
It is cultivated.
Notes
There are about 250 Rubus species.
Names & Synonyms
Lucretia dewberry
References (2)
- Lazarides, M. & Hince, B., 1993, Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia, CSIRO. p 208
- Mansfield's Encyclopedia of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops p 432
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