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Cloudberry 

 

 

Every even slightly knowledgeable ”bog fan” has his or her own cloudberry spot, kept somewhat secret.

 

Chamaemorus  means fragrant berry and a fully ripe cloudberry is precisely that.  As regards vitamins, it is wholly comparable to blackcurrants.

 

Ripening cloudberry fruits are reddish and rather hard. When ripe, they are honey yellow and completely juice-filled. On over-ripening they turn greyish-yellow – in the old days called ”pus-heads”.  

 

Each part of the cloudberry drupe consists of a large seed in a juicy medium. At the tip of each shoot there is just one fruit – but one ”cloudberry vine” can have from one to thirty of them. Cloudberry leaves are dark green and crinkled, with 5-7 rounded lobes. No need to be a plant specialist to recognize cloudberries in a bog.

 

Very good cloudberry years repeat at intervals of 3-5 years.