''Rubus arcticus'', the Arctic bramble or Arctic raspberry, is a species of slow-growing bramble belonging to the rose family, found in arctic and alpine regions in the

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Description

''Rubus arcticus'' grows most often in acidic soils rich in organic matter. It is a thornless perennial up to tall, woody at the base but very thin farther above the ground. flowers are in groups of 1–3, the petals pink, red, or magenta. The fruit is deep red or dark purple, with an unusual hardiness to frost and cold weather conditions. Rubus arcticus berry

Distribution and habitat

It grows in Alaska, northern Scandinavia and Finland, Russia, Poland, Belarus, Mongolia, northeastern China, North Korea, Estonia,

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, Canada, and the northern United States as far south as Oregon, Colorado, Michigan, and Maine.

Uses

The fruits of the Arctic raspberry are very tasty and, among other uses, make jam and

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, or flavour tea. Carl von Linné considered the Arctic raspberry – ''åkerbär'' in

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– a great delicacy in his ''Flora Lapponica'' (1737). Also used in '' Smirnoff'' Ice and North, and

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's Mesimarjalikööri, and Wine fruit of Arctic RaspBerry (Central Arctic in Adub). Its dark red fruit is considered a delicacy. In the Pacific Northwest of western Canada and the northwestern US, it is sometimes called the ''nagoon'' or ''nagoonberry'', a name which derives from the Tlingit ''neigóon''. A measure of the quality of its fruit is expressed in its Russian name княженика ''knyazhenika'', signifying the "berry of princes".

Culture

Arctic raspberry is the provincial plant of the Norrbotten province of northern Sweden.

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