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[Jukka K <jpkrvi@yahoo.co.uk>]

Oh, the magical cloudberry! Thinking of cloudberries brings to my mind happy 
memories from my childhood in Northern Finland, where cloudberries are a very 
important crop still today. Picking beautiful, ripe, fragrant cloudberries on 
an open marsh on a sunny day, it's one of my absolute favorite things (minus 
the mosquitos!)
There is some cloudberry breeding going on in Finlang, aiming at larger 
berries and hermaphrodite cultivars. A hermaphrodite clone found in nature in 
western Finland is now commercially available.
In the garden, cloudberry requires a "wet bed" similar to cranberry. I 
haven't tried that because I can get ample amounts of wild clouberried from 
my mom each summer. 
If anyone is interested in getting wild cloudberry seeds from Finland, I can 
extract some and send next summer.  

The follwing links may be of interest to those looking for cloudberry 
information:

http://www.uku.fi/northernberries/files/pdf/Northernberries2002-2005.pdf
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1993/v2-524.html

Regards,

Mr. Jukka Kallijarvi
Helsinki
Finland



--- On Thu, 5/3/09, Sarah Kehler Ewing <skkewing@yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Sarah Kehler Ewing <skkewing@yahoo.com>
> Subject: [NAFEX] Cloudberry
> To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Thursday, 5 March, 2009, 11:12 PM
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm wondering if anyone on here knows anything about
> Cloudberries.  I'm also looking for a commercial source
> for Cloudberry plants or seeds.
> 
> English: cloudberry
> German: Moltebeere, Torfbeere
> Canada, USA (Alaska): cloudberry, bakeapple
> Scientific Names
> 
> Species: Rubus chamaemorus L.
> Family: Rosaceae
> 
> 
> 
> I found some Cloudberry jam at Ikea and, aside from being
> too sweet like almost all commercial jams, we thought it was
> really good.  They resemble large yellow raspberries
> and their seeds is also like large raspberry seeds! 
> The information I found online mentioned their hardiness and
> the fact that they grow naturally in Canada and other
> Northern countries.
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Sarah 
> Zone 3, Edm, AB
>