Rubus nubigenus

Botanical Description

Rubus nubigenus is a deciduous shrub producing each year a cluster of scrambling, prickly, biennial stems from a woody rootstock; the stems can grow 2 metres or more long. The stems only produce leaves, and do not flower, in their first year of growth; forming flowering branches in their second year and then dying after fruiting. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food. It is cultivated at higher elevations in Peru and Colombia, and occasionally elsewhere, the fruit being sold in local markets[ 196 Title Lost Crops of the Incas Publication Author Popenoe. H. et al Publisher National Academy Press Year 1990 ISBN 0-309-04264-X Description An excellent book. Very readable, with lots of information and good pictures of some lesser known food plants of S. America. , 317 Title Mansfeld's Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Plants Publication Author Website http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:4292127278597336 Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Terse details of a huge range of useful plants. ].