The Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis, Rosaceae) is an erect shrub with orange to reddish orange berries related to the blackberry.
Salmonberries are found in moist forests and stream margins from Alaska to Northern California, especially in the coastal forests. They often form large thickets.
Books often call the fruits "insipid", but depending on ripeness and site, they can be quite good and are used for jams, jellies and wines by locals. They were and continue to be an important food for native people.
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Salmonberry jam was a plot device in the 1990 movie Salmonberries starring k.d. lang.
Rubus is a genus of plant in the Family Rosaceae, Subfamily Rosoideae.
These plants have prickles like roses and are often called brambles; this name is most often used for the flberry and similar fruits that are also of rambling habit, and not used for those like the raspberry that grow as upright canes.
The genus Rubus is a very complex one, containing 13 subgenera, the largest of which, subgenus Rubus, is further subdivided into 12 sections:
It is a common constituent of northern Californiashrub communities dominated by baccharis (Baccharis spp.), thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus), and trailing flberry (R. ursinus) [31].
Reproductive versatility is common in the Rubus genus; sexual reproduction, parthenogenesis (development of the egg without fertilization), pseudogamy (a form of apomixis in which pollination is required), and parthenocarpy (production of fruit without fertilization) occur widely [12].
Most Rubus seeds require, as a minimum, warm stratification at 68 to 86 degrees F (20 to 30 degrees C) for 90 days, followed by cold stratification at 36 to 41 degrees F (2 to 5 degrees C) for an additional 90 days [8].
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