Cloud Berries (Source of?)

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Hi, Does anyone out there know where I can find a source of the plant "Cloudberry." A friend of mine told me they make wine out of the berries,In Norway. If you have any Info on this plant please let me know -Thanks much! Karl Frost Frostym@swns.net

-- Karl Frost (Frostym@swns.net), February 13, 2002

Answers

Apparently cloudberry is one of the common names for Blackberry as are these: Bramble, Dewberry, Goutberry, High blackberry, Piao, Thimbleberry, Wild western thimbleberries. So plug blackberry into your search engine and you should get many results.

-- BC (desertdweller44@yahoo.com), February 13, 2002.

Howdy from the Northwest where blackberries (3 varieties), thimbleberries and salmonberries grow wild. Never heard of cloudberries, but thimbleberries are not blackberries. FYI.

-- Laura Jensen (lauraj@seedlaw.com), February 13, 2002.

Hello Karl, I've picked and eaten wild cloudberries in the coastal bogs up here. They are raspberry/thimbleberry/blackberry type cluster berries. They are orange, and taste delicious. The berry plants that I have seen do not look like the above plants however. They are low sprawling, and sit in sphagnum mosses. I don't have my plant i.d. books with me, but I'll check and get the latin name for you, and the full plant description. I have also tasted the cloudberry liquor, and it too is quite fine. I think that you have to be either at high elevation, or high latitude, and in a sphagnum bog to find this plant, but I'm not sure. Good luck.

-- roberto pokachinni in B.C. (pokachinni@yahoo.com), February 13, 2002.

Hi Guys, Cloud berries up here in Eastern Canada, are called Bake-apples. They are kind of yellow orange and taste good. I don't know of any commercial production of them but there may be in Newfoundland , where they are more common and much more widely used.They make wine ,liquer, preserves, jelly etc out of 'em. They are more common in the marshy coastal areas , at least in Nova Scotia they are. Bob in Scotsburn NS

-- Bob Manning (riobard@nsis.com), February 13, 2002.

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