While taking the doggy on a mountain bike trail I came across these. They do look like artic raspberries but more robust, thicker stems longer growth. Then again not big enough not self standing enough to be salmon berries.
I have the four European “improved” varieties which, for starters, lack any improvements I can discern. They (the European ones) are also a lot more delicate in the way they grow.
I’ll harvest a few the next time I take my doggy out to that area.
Keep us updated! I have some of the “improved” varieties and as you said, no real improvement.
they look like it to me. we have a wild swamp raspberry that crawls along the ground like a dewberry but sparsely fruits. supposedly we have arctic and cloudberry but ive never come across them.
We don’t have those here. We do have 3 separate species of arctic raspberries, R. arcticus arcticus, R. arcticus acaulis, and R. arcticus stellatus. I know that the stellatus is smaller with smaller leaves, which is closer to the European-bred ones. To complicate matters in areas they intersect they hybridize freely. Even then they can be found in isolated valleys so finding plants that do that but in apparent isolation is not uncommon.
you ever see cloudberry up there? they supposedly like to grow near boggy areas.
Still looking for them.
I managed to go and harvest some plants before they dropped their leaves. If we don’t get early snow I may go back after they go dormant to get more, those should transplant better. Although true to their wild nature (resilient as wild plants can be) even a few I pulled without dirt and left overnight did not wilt under the mistreatment.
European-bred varieties are skinny, downright wispy. These has a strong structure and are not afraid to grow up to get some sunlight. On the third picture the two thick ones on the left are the wild ones, the others are the European. The wild ones can get thicker while for the Euro ones that seems to be as strong as they get.
I’ll overfeed them next year to see how well they can do under ideal conditions.
