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The cloudberry is a species of slow-growing bramble, Rubus chamaemorus L.; producing tasty fruit. The botanical name derives from the Greek "chamai" (="dwarf") and "morus" (=" mulberry"). Cloudberry is the name for both the plant and the fruit.
1 Description
The cloudberry plant grows to 10-25 cm high. Leaves alternate between having 5 and 7 soft, handlike lobes on straight, branchless stalks. After pollination, the white (sometimes reddish-tipped) flowers form raspberry-sized berries. Encapsulating between 5 and 25 berries, each fruit is initially pale red, ripening into an amber colour in autumn.
2 Distribution
Cloudberries occur naturally throughout the Northern Hemisphere from 78°N, south to about 55°N, and very scattered south to 44°N mainly in mountainous areas. In Europe, they grow mainly in the national forests of Scandinavia, the moorlands of Britain and IrelandThe island of Ireland ire in Irish, Airlann in Ulster Scots) is the third-largest island in Europe. It lies on the west side of the Irish Sea, close to the island of Great Britain. It is composed of the Republic of Ireland in the south and Northern Irelan, and in RussiaThe Russian Federation ( Russian: , transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija , or Russia (Russian: , transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija , is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia. With and the BalticBaltic can refer to: The Baltic Sea Council of the Baltic Sea States an intergovernmental organization Baltic sea countries countries with access to the Baltic Sea The term Baltic countries is sometimes used more or less synonymously for Northern Europe ( states. Small populations are also found further south, as a botanical vestige of the Ice Age; it is found in Germany's Weser and ElbeThe Elbe River ( Czech Labe Sorbian/Lusatian Lobjo Polish Laba is one of the major waterways of central Europe. It originates in the North West Czech Republic before traversing much of Germany and finally emptying into the North Sea. Geography Elbe rises valleys, where it is under legal protection. In North AmericaNorth America is the third largest continent in area and the fourth ranked in population. It is bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by the North Pacific Ocea, cloudberries grow wild in the forests of the thinly populated North shore region of QuebecQuebec ( In Detail) ( In Detail) National Motto: Je me souviens (I remember CapitalLargest city Quebec City Montreal Area Total % fresh water 2nd largest(1st lgst prov. 1 542 056 km² 11,5% Population Total (2004) Density Ranked 2nd 7 509 928 5,43/km² Admi, on the Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of Saint LawrenceThe Gulf of Saint Lawrence the world's largest estuary, is the outlet of North America's Great Lakes via the Saint Lawrence River into the Atlantic Ocean. The river flows into the gulf through the Jacques Cartier Strait between the Cote-Nord region of Que, and throughout Newfoundland and Labrador.
It grows in bogs, marshes and wet meadows and requires sunny exposures in acidic ground (between 3.5 and 5 pH). The cloudberry can withstand cold temperatures down to well below -40°C, but is sensitive to salt and to dry conditions.
