RUBUS ARCTICUS; RUBUS CHAMAEMORUS

RUBUS ARCTICUS

Rubus Arcticus

Rubus arcticus has a northern circumpolar distribution. The common name in (translated) Russian speaks more to its taste: ”berry of kings” and it's very very rare berry. Edibility is also discussed by the Plants for a Future database: Rubus Arcticus

I have never seen this berry even I live in North, I have got into a picture it blooming.

RUBUS CHAMAEMORUS

Perennial plant with long, creeping, branched rhizome. Supraterraneous shoots 5 cm tall in Lapland Leaf blades orbicular-reniform, with 5(7) shallow rounded lobes, irregularly finely dentate. Flowers solitary, terminal, unisexual. Sepals ovate, obtuse, covered with hairs and short stipitate glands. Petals white, obovate. Fruits aggregate drupes, initially red, amber-yellow when ripen, semiopaque, later turning brown.
Occurs in Arctic and swamp zones, in mountain swamps too, in sphagnum bogs, in moist, mossy and moss-lichen tundras.

Use and economic value.

Food, medicine. The fruits have excellent taste and are eaten fresh (also steeped, frozen) and cooked (jam). Good melliferous plant.

When you come from the awful swamp you have so awsome berries that you cannot believe it's true. I have done every year also cheese cakes of jams I,done and take from freezer the berries on the cheesecake. The best berry ever because the Rubus Arcticus is so rare that I never have tasted it. (Living in Lapland)

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