Scientific name:

Rubus chamaemorus

Vernacular name:

Cloudberry

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Cloudberry

Scientific name: Rubus chamaemorus L.

Diagnostic features
Stems to 20cm, erect, annual, clothed only with hairs.
Leaves simple, ± orbicular, palmately 5-7-lobed.
Flowers dioecious, solitary, terminal, white, 20-30mm across.
Fruit orange when ripe, of 4-20 large drupes.

Chromosome number: 2n=56.

Habitat
Native; peaty moors and bogs on mountains.

Distribution
Britain North from North Wales and Derbys, Tyrone.

This species is keyed out on Page 2257 in the Text Key.

Rubus chamaemorus 2 (Female flower, picture taken in Derbyshire by C.A. Stace)
Rubus chamaemorus 3 (Male flower, picture taken in Derbyshire by C.A. Stace)
Rubus chamaemorus 4 (Flowering habit, picture taken in Derbyshire by C.A. Stace)
Rubus chamaemorus 5 (Fruiting, picture taken in Sweden by H.J.B. Birks)
Rubus chamaemorus 6 (Fruiting habit, picture taken in Easterness by A. Showler)

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