Salmonberries
Salmonberry
(Rubus spectabilis -- Family Rosaceae)
Salmonberries are close relatives of the blackberry and raspberry and are often mistaken for cloudberries. The structure is more like the raspberry as it pulls away from its receptacle like the raspberry. The reddis or orangey-yellow fruit is found in North America as far north as Alaska, but generally flourishing in the Pacific north-west altitudes. It is just one of the numerous berries North American Indians gathered to incorporate into pemmican. It is said that the name came about because of the First Nations fondness for eating the berries with half-dried salmon roe.
