Cloudberry
The cloudberry is a species of bramble, Rubus chamaemorus L., that produce tasty fruit. The ripe fruits are golden-yellow, soft and juicy, have a fresh, sweet-sourish taste, and contain vitamin C. Cloudberries grow wild in cold parts of the Northern Hemisphere, notably in Scandinavia.
Cloudberries are rarely cultivated, but their fruits are commonly gathered from wild plants growing in the national forests in Scandinavia and in Finland. The fruit is also called a cloudberry; in Swedish it is hjortron; in Finnish it is lakka, suomuurain or hilla. Cloudberries are eaten fresh or made into jams, juices. tarts or liqueurs.
In North America Cloudberries grow wild in the forests of the thinly populated North shore region of Quebec, and the Magdalen Islands in the Saint Lawrence River estuary of Canada. They are known there as plaquebiere or chicoutai and are sometimes used to make jam, but not at the same large scale as in Scandinavia.
There is an indie rock band based in Linköping, Sweden called Cloudberry Jam.
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