| Rubus chamaemorus L. | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Common name | cloudberry | ||
| Description | Flowering stems erect, from thin, long, branching and creeping rootstock; leaves few, round-reniform, coriaceous, obscurely 5-lobed, serrate; flowers solitary; calyx lobes ovate to ovate-oblong; petals white, obovate; female flowers with dwarfed stamens; male flowers with dwarfed pistils, on different plants; fruit at first firmly attached to calyx, hard and red-tinged, when ripe loosening from calyx, juicy and yellow, quickly dropping off. | ||
| Ecology | Peat bogs. Described from Sweden. | ||
| Uses | Fruit excellent to eat when ripe, keeps without addition of sugar over the winter, and makes very good jam. Does not fruit in years when heavy frost occurs during flowering time; thus, fruiting occurs more often in milder southern areas than in interior or northern areas. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.