Rubus fellatae
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Description
A scrambling bush or shrub. The fruit is a composite fruit like a raspberry and is orange-red. It can be 1.5 cm long. It is sweet and edible.
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Edible Uses
The sweet fruit is eaten fresh.
Distribution
A tropical plant. It grows in mountain regions in West Africa. In Nigeria it is recorded at 1,660 m above sea level.
Where It Grows
Africa, Guinea, Guinée, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, West Africa,
Notes
There are about 250 Rubus species.
Dangerous Lookalikes
This plant can be confused with the following toxic species. Always verify identification carefully before consuming any wild plant.
Red Baneberry
Actaea rubra
Walter Siegmund (talk)
Rubus fellatae
Rubus fellatae
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Red Baneberry: Short herbaceous plant (no thorns), berries on thick red stems, each berry has a single seed, compound sharply-toothed leaves.
Rubus fellatae: Thorny woody canes (brambles), aggregate berry made of many drupelets, berries pull easily from receptacle.
References (7)
- Burkill, H. M., 1985, The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4. Kew.
- Chapman, J. D. & Chapman, H. M., 2001, The Forest Flora of Taraba and Andamawa States, Nigeria. WWF & University of Canterbury. p 196
- Dalziel, 1937,
- Flora of China @ efloras.org Volume 9
- Jardin, C., 1970, List of Foods Used In Africa, FAO Nutrition Information Document Series No 2.p 159
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- JSTOR Global Plants edible
- Peters, C. R., O'Brien, E. M., and Drummond, R.B., 1992, Edible Wild plants of Sub-saharan Africa. Kew. p 167
