Baked apple berry – description, flowering period and general distribution in Newfoundland & Labrador. Rubus chamaemorus (Cloudberry, Bakeapple) field in the mountains, behind the snow-capped peaks and clouds

Common name:

Baked apple berry

Scientific name:

Rubus chamaemorus.

Other common name(s):

Cloudberry, Bake apple, Baked apple berry, Bakeapple, Nordic berry, Knotberry, Aqpik, Low-bush salmonberry, Averin, Evron.

Life form:

Shrub, Forb.

Flowering time:

16 - 23 days.

Flowering period

in Newfoundland & Labrador for this plant is: July.

NECTAR PRODUCTION:
30 kilograms per ha

SOURCE FOR HONEY BEES:
Major in some areas

General distribution:

Cloudberry has a circumboreal distribution. In North America, it occurs from Alaska, across Canada to Greenland and Labrador and south to New York. Cloudberry occurs as a dominant or codominant in a variety of habitats within its range.

Map of distribution and habitat in Canada

This plant is present in at least 18 states/provinces in this country.

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Botanical description:

Cloudberry is a herbaceous perennial forb 4 to 12 inches (10-30 cm) high. It is prostrate to erect in form with slender, creeping, woody rhizomes. The leaves are 1 to 3 inches (2-8 cm) long. The aggregate fruit is composed of 6 to 18 large drupelets.

Seasonal development:

In the southern parts of its range cloudberry flowers in June and July and the berries ripen in late August and early September.

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