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  • From: "Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Cloudberry
  • Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 09:02:52 -0600

Really good information. Thank you.

---- Original Message ----
From: jpkrvi@yahoo.co.uk
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Cloudberry
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 09:30:53 +0000 (GMT)

>
>
>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
>>
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