name: Cloudberry

flavor_db_name_variants: cloudberry

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Cloudberry

id: 161

name_scientific: Rubus chamaemorus

description: Rubus chamaemorus (Greek chamai "on the ground", moros "mulberry") is a rhizomatous herb native to alpine and arctic tundra and boreal forest, producing amber-colored edible fruit similar to the raspberry or blackberry. English common names include cloudberry, bakeapple (in Atlantic Canada), knotberry and knoutberry (in England), aqpik or low-bush salmonberry (in Alaska - not to be confused with true salmonberry, Rubus spectabilis), and averin or evron (in Scotland). Unlike most Rubus species, the cloudberry is dioecious, and fruit production by a female plant requires pollination from a male plant. The cloudberry grows to 10?25 cm high. The leaves alternate between having 5 and 7 soft, handlike lobes on straight, branchless stalks. After pollination, the white (sometimes reddish-tipped) flowers form raspberry-sized berries. Encapsulating between 5 and 25 drupelets, each fruit is initially pale red, ripening into an amber color in early autumn.

itis_id: 24850

wikipedia_id: Cloudberry

picture_file_name: 161.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 363974

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:34:45.000Z

legacy_id: 171

food_group: Fruits

food_subgroup: Berries

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:23.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:17.000Z

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updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 57936

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00161