Menispermaceae

73 edible species

Climbing vines producing moon-seed fruits; mostly toxic despite edible-appearing berries.

Abuta grandifolia

Large leaf abuta

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit mesocarp

Abuta platyphylla

Videira Silvestre

Edible: Root, Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Albertisia delagoensis

Edible: Fruit

Albertisia mangenotii

Edible: Fruit

Albertisia papuana

Sungkai papuana

Edible: Fruit, Leaves - flavouring

Edible: Spice, Flavouring

Anamirta cocculus

Levant berries, Fish berries

Edible: Fruit - flavouring, Vegetable, Caution, Poisonous

Anomospermum chloranthum

Edible: Fruit

Anomospermum reticulatum subsp. dielsianum

Edible: Fruit

Arcangelisia gusanlung

Gu shan long

Edible: Medicine

Aspidocarya uvifera

Seiga

Edible: Fruit

Burasaia madagascariensis

Edible: Fruit, Leaves - spice

Chasmanthera dependens

Edible: Stems, Vegetable, Fruit, Roots, Tubers, Leaves

Chasmanthera welwitschii

Edible: Fruit, Root, Vegetable

Chondrodendron platyphyllum

Jabuticaba-de-cipo

Edible: Fruit

Chondrodendron tomentosum

Wild grape, Curare

Edible: Fruit

Cissampelos hirta

Edible: Leaves, Fruit

Cissampelos mucronata

Edible: Leaves, Caution

Cissampelos pareira

Velvet leaf

Edible: Tubers, Root, Caution, Stems, Leaves, Fruit

Cissampelos torulosa

Edible: Leaves

Cissampelos tropaeolifolia

Edible: Fruit

Cocculus hirsutus

Python climber, Broom creeper, Bushveld moonseed creeper

Edible: Leaves, Fruit

Cocculus limacia

Edible: Fruit

Cocculus orbiculatus

Queen coralbead

Edible: Leaves, Root

Cocculus pendulus

Edible: Fruit, Flowers, Vegetable

Coscinium blumeanum

Mengkunyit, Sekunyit, Tuba kupak

Edible: Tubers, Root

Coscinium fenestratum

False calumba, Yellow vine

Edible: Caution, Medicine, Flavouring

Curarea cuatrecasasii

Edible: Fruit

Curarea tomentocarpa

Edible: Fruit

Curarea toxicofera

Edible: Fruit

Cincau leaves

Edible: Leaves, Root

Pata root, Raj patha

Edible: Tubers

Cyclea sutchuenensis

Xigia

Edible: Fruit

Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii

Serendipity berry, Guinea potato

Edible: Tubers, Root, Fruit

Dioscoreophyllum volkensii

Serendipity berry

Edible: Leaves, Root, Fronds

Diploclisia glaucescens

Edible: Fruit

Disciphania ernstii

Edible: ?

Eleutharrhena macrocarpa

Xixidongdong

Edible: Fruit, Leaves

Fibraurea recisa

Tall woody vine

Edible: Root - flavouring

Haematocarpus thompsonii

Edible: Fruit

Haematocarpus validus

Edible: Fruit

Jateorhiza palmata

Edible: Root - medicine

Limacia scandens

Edible: Fruit

Odontocarya acuparata

Capeba

Edible: Fruit

Odontocarya tripetala

Capeba

Edible: Fruit

Orthomene schomburgkii

Akawesi, Monkey genip

Edible: Fruit

Parabaena sagittata

Edible: Leaves, Stems

Penianthus longifolius

Edible: Fruit, Roots

Perichasma laetificata

Edible: Roots

Pycnarrhena tumefacta

Edible: Leaves

Rhigiocarya racemifera

Edible: Medicine

Sinomenium acutum

Snailseed

Edible: Leaves, Root

Sphenocentrum jollyanum

Edible: Roots, Fruit

Stephania abyssinica

Stephania brachyandra

Bai xian shu

Edible: Root

Stephania dinklagei

Edible: Medicine

Stephania glabra

Edible: Tuber, Root, Probably also medicine.

Stephania japonica

Tape vine, Snake vine

Edible: Fruit, Leaves, Seed

Stephania laetificata

Edible: Tubers, Root

Stephania longa

Edible: Leaves - tea

Stephania rotunda

Synclisia scabrida

Edible: Medicine

Tiliacora dielsiana

Edible: Fruit, Stem

Tiliacora leonensis

Edible: Fruit

Tiliacora triandra

Yanang

Edible: Flavouring, Leaves, Fruit

Tinospora cordifolia

Heart-leaved moonseed

Edible: Leaves, Stem - juice

Tinospora crispa

Edible: Fruit, Spice

Tinospora glabra

Edible: Leaves, Stems, Medicine

Tinospora smilacina

Snakevine

Edible: Tuber, Root

Triclisia dictyophylla

Edible: Medicine

Triclisia patens

Edible: Roots - flavouring, Fruit