Hello, We are visiting the PNW right now and were at PCC where my friend teaches-- my 6 year old daughter was running around near the daycare and playground and found some (seemingly intentionally planted) groundcover plants yielding small orange raspberry-like berries that smelled sweet and floral. Now my daughter knows the dangers of wild plants but as I (perhaps stupidly) announced they looked like the native edible salmonberries she popped one into her mouth before I could stop her. I ran over to look and they did indeed look like salmonberries but then I noticed the leaves looked wrong. Now I'm in a blind panic. She ate one over 12 hours ago and is fine but please help if you can ID these! Portland, OR found at PCC.
They look like raspberry leaves to me. Here is something to calm you down until someone gives you the exact ID: Are there any poisonous plants that look like blackberries? | AnswersDrive In reading this, I have assumed that an orange berry looks like a blackberry.
Well, that was easy. I'm not familiar with this fruit, but if you enter "ground cover with raspberry like yellow fruit" in Google, Creeping Raspberry or Rubus hayata-koidzumii, an obvious edible, immediately comes up.
With those fruits likely to be: Rubus rolfei ‘Formosan Carpet’ Introduced 1985 as R. calycinoides ‘Emerald Carpet’. Seedling selection from R. Pearson, Vancouver, BC., from seed collected in Taiwan. Amber fruit and apparently hardier than typical. The cultivar name was changed because Emerald Carpet® was an exclusive trademark name for Monrovia Nursery https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/attachments/ubc-bg-plant-introduction-scheme-pdf.163331/
I planted then-called Rubus rolfei 'Emerald Carpet' soon after it was introduced to cover a slope in my Burnaby garden. I still love the leaves but can't remember that it had time to produce berries. It soon proved that it's ambitions far exceeded the space I was prepared to give it.
