So i went looking for that elusive cloudberry

[Norweger]

This is what i found after venturing way further than i had planned. Got skunked a long time and right before i was about to give up i found a couple of berries, then i found a hill with them scattered all over, but on both sides of the patch i found unpolinated flowers.. which just shows how random this berry is. One year it might be plentyfull in one area, the next year nothing.

http://i.imgur.com/upyGs8z.jpg

Got 1.4kg. Gonna make jam and freeze most of it. Maybe give away a little to family.

[Glass]

its strawberry season here again and although it's all cultivated I've planned to go to some of the farms for bulk berrys and make some preserve. This year I might actually get organised enough to do it. I notice these past couple years the stores have been swamped with cheap-ish punnets. What used to cost $3.00 now costs $1 and for $3 you can get a fairly large container. The export market musn't be so good these day.

You've inspired me. I'll poke around at the weekend and see how many berries I can rustle up. There used to be places you could take your bucket and pick your own. I think I need a few buckets worth.

It also reminds me of a spot along the river where blackberries grow wild. It will require thick trousers, boots and gloves but might also be worth a visit. So long as the council has not been down there and sprayed poison everywhere. It's been raining almost constantly the past 2+ weeks so chances are they haven't.

[Norweger]

Locally produced strawberries are priced insanely high here and the imported, for the most part belgian strawberries are almost always unripe which has left a sour taste in my mouth (pun intended), so i don't even bother purchasing it in the store anymore. If you can pick your own then i'd certainly try that. I'm dreaming about one day being able to grow some strawberries myself.

I live a bit to far north to pick blackberries though.

[crimethink]

http://thehalalfoundation.com/berries/

[madfranks]

I've never heard of cloudberries before; they look like light-colored raspberries.

[Cebu_4_2]

Never saw anything like these, very cool.

[Norweger]

They only grow in the northern hemisphere so it's no wonder that many of you have not heard about them. They are related to raspberries and blackberries, but taste nothing like them.

One common usage is to make moltekrem (cloudberry cream), a dessert which is consumed mostly during christmas time.

https://boerboelheidi.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/img_3149-800x764.jpg

This is how they look in the wild.

http://www.rolv.no/images/medisinplanter/R/rubu_cha2.jpg

Later on today i'll be having some on toast. Oh yes.

[ximmy]

Are you certain those aren't the droppings of a Chupacabra?

[Norweger]

Considering how scarce they can be it wouldn't surprise me.

[Spectrism]

Muslims like to eat dingleberries.

[osoab]

They only grow in the northern hemisphere so it's no wonder that many of you have not heard about them. They are related to raspberries and blackberries, but taste nothing like them.

One common usage is to make moltekrem (cloudberry cream), a dessert which is consumed mostly during christmas time.


This is how they look in the wild

Later on today i'll be having some on toast. Oh yes.

Most on the board are in the "Northern Hemisphere". Most are not in alpine regions.


From Ziopedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_chamaemorus)

Rubus chamaemorus is a rhizomatous (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizome) herb (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbaceous_plant) native to cool temperate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperate_climate), alpine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_tundra), arctic tundra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tundra#Arctic) and boreal forest (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiga), producing amber-colored edible fruit similar to the raspberry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry) or blackberry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackberry). English common names include cloudberry,[1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_chamaemorus#cite_note-BSBI07-1) bakeapple (in Newfoundland and Labrador (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundland_and_Labrador)), knotberry and knoutberry (in England), aqpik or low-bush salmonberry (in Alaska (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska) - not to be confused with true salmonberry, Rubus spectabilis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_spectabilis)),[2] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_chamaemorus#cite_note-2) and averin or evron (in Scotland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland)).

[Norweger]

You are right.

[hoarder]

They only grow in the northern hemisphere so it's no wonder that many of you have not heard about them.Does anyone on this forum live on the Southern hemisphere?
I never heard of cloudberries. Look tasty though. Around here it's Serviceberries and Huckleberries.

[Norweger]

Does anyone on this forum live on the Southern hemisphere?
I never heard of cloudberries. Look tasty though. Around here it's Serviceberries and Huckleberries.

They would probably have been called a nigger and then left for good.


This is where it grows.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Cloudberry_distrib.png

[Tumbleweed]

A couple of weeks ago my nieces little girl who's 10 years old and I picked about 15 gallons of choke cherries. My sister in law made them into jelly. They were really plump, juicy and sweet. Some of the best I've seen.

There were also wild grapes this year and my sister in law made those in to jam and jelly too. I like the wild grape jelly better than the jelly you buy in stores.

[Twisted Titan]

Dude I swore you were talking about a pokemon

[osoab]

Does anyone on this forum live on the Southern hemisphere?
I never heard of cloudberries. Look tasty though. Around here it's Serviceberries and Huckleberries.

Horn, Glass, Serpo, and maybe PatColo.

[osoab]

So what sort of comparison for taste? Don't say chicken.

[monty]

Horn, Glass, Serpo, and maybe PatColo.

Horn lives in Costa Rica in the Northern Hemisphere, Central America.

[osoab]

Horn lives in Costa Rica in the Northern Hemisphere, Central America.

It's South of Mexico. That's all that matters.