Facts Of Japanese Wineberry

Facts Of Japanese Wineberry (Rubus phoenicolasius)

It’s a delicious wineberry and unusual berry that’s no more difficult to grow than a raspberry.

The wineberry is native to Korea, China and Japan. The vigorous deciduous shrub grows up to 8-10ft tall. It’s perfect for growing against a fence. It produces large trusses of sweet orange red to dark red berries of delicious flavor.


The stems are grown up well in winter, usually when sunlight strikes them. It is biennial as like raspberry where the canes grow one year and fruit the next. It consists of emerald green leaves that grow up to 18cm long. It composed of three, coarsely toothed, rounded, ovate or heart-shaped leaflets.

In early summer it produces small, star-like, whitish-pink and self-fertile flowers. In early August it produces small, glistening, conical and orange-red fruit. These fruits are almost surrounded by the calyx until they are ripe. You can possibly cook them in the same way as like raspberries.

Rambutan Health Facts

  • Rambutan fruits have only less calories but rich in sugar likely fructose and sucrose.
  • Rambutan is rich in vitamin C. It helps to prevents body cells from being damaged by free radicals and helps the absorption of iron.
  • Rambutans roots and leaves have various uses in the production of dyes and drugs. Skin and stem contains tannin, saponin, flavonida, pectic substances, and iron
  • Rambutan fruit functions as an excellent iron source. It promotes the correct amount of oxygen, which help stop the dizziness and fatigue due to anemia, an illness caused by low iron.


Nutrition Facts
Calories 123
Total Fat 0.3 g
Saturated Fat 0.0 g
Cholesterol 0 mg
Sodium 17 mg
Total Carbohydrates 31.3 g
Dietary Fiber 1.4 g
Protein 1.0 g