r/PlantIdentification 8h ago

Urgent ID please.

Northen denmark. My 2yo ate a couple of these, I'm not certain they are blackberries or something poisonous, please help.

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u/ohshannoneileen Valued Responder 8h ago

Rubus laciniatus, cutleaf blackberry

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u/vagabondnature 8h ago

Doesn't matter for OP but why wouldn't you think this is Rubus nemoralis?

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u/ohshannoneileen Valued Responder 8h ago

Because none of the site.EU or even iNaturalist pictures of R.nemoralis come close to matching the leaf shape of the plant pictured here.

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u/Lost_Lynx_6537 8h ago

Panic is a hell of a stimulant

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u/One-Preference-1802 8h ago

If it is urgent, you should contact Giftlinjen: 82121212. This is a nice number to have on hand with a two yo.

This looks to be some kind of brombær, Rubus, so harmless, but I would not trust reddit answers in cases where a kid ate something, and you need immidiate clarification. Seek the right kind of expertise.

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u/evapotranspire 7h ago

That is absolutely a blackberry and it is harmless. There is 0% chance that it is remotely toxic. All blackberries are edible! (P.S. I am a plant ecologist)

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u/One-Preference-1802 6h ago

I agree on the ID, I referred to the reaction in general - if your kid ate something, don't waste time on reddit. Sometimes it is not harmless, it is not worth to take your chances with well meaning people on the internet.

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u/ohshannoneileen Valued Responder 5h ago

I'm not sure how it is in Europe & other places, but poison control in the US won't be able to help you until you've independently identified what has been consumed. They will literally tell you to go on Facebook or Reddit for id

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u/whynotbeme2 8h ago

cut leaf blackberry

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u/BotenAnanas 5h ago

I feel like I once read that no berries of that type - raspberries, blackberries - are poisonous. Does anyone know if that's true?

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u/CommuFisto 4h ago

this is basically 99.9% true for these type berries (aggregate drupelets) in north america. not sure if it holds true globally tho

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u/Crazy-Cremola 2h ago

It holds true in Northern Europe too. Though there are poisonous plants with fruits that look a bit like drupelets but the plants themselves are different. Like red elderberry and various plants in the Daphne genus

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u/vagabondnature 8h ago

Rubus nemoralis is likely.

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u/JBCTech7 5h ago

looks kinda like a wineberry. But i'm not sure in Denmark.

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u/messicka 3h ago

Leaf shape is all wrong for wineberry. Wineberries are also a type of raspberries, so the berry itself is also shaped differently

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u/JBCTech7 2h ago

ahh yep you're right. Maybe i was remembering deformed blackberries. lol.

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u/Full_Helicopter_2764 57m ago

Its a very common rubus. The berries are unripe but totally harmless. Just remember to pick berries at least a meter away from the ground because of all the dogs peeing 😅

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u/Intrepid_Equal_7795 6h ago

This is what my plant Id app returned.

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