The stone bramble (Rus. kostyanika kamenistaya) is a herbaceous plant in the Rosaceae family. It belongs to the same genus as raspberries, blackberries, and the cloudberry. In Russia, the stone bramble grows in Siberia, Far East, and Ural. Most often, it can be found in the Vologda Region and its neighboring regions: Kostroma, Arkhangelsk, Kirov. The stone bramble prefers moist soils and stone fields. It mostly grows in taiga coniferous forests and small woods, and thrives in shady rather than sunny areas.
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Since time immemorial, leaves of the stone bramble have been used by the Northerners for weather forecasting. If the leaves are rolled in tubules, then there will a long period of bright and sunny weather. If they are straightened out, it means that in 15-20 hours it will start raining. Hunters, mushroom pickers, and fishermen of the Arkhangelsk Region and the Vologda Region still use this weather lore.
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The stone bramble has many non-scientific names. One of them is ryabchikovaya yagoda, which means hazel-grouse berry in Russian. Other names come from the Russian word kamyen’ meaning stone (kemyenika; kamyennaya malina – stone raspberry), or from the word kost’, which translates as bone (kostyanitsa; kostyanchik; kostyaniga).
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‘In remote places, where the huge wood grouse lives, one can find the stone bramble, a tasseled ruby-coloured berry: each of its little rubies has a green collet’.
Mikhail Prishvin’s book The Treasure Trove of the Sun contains a description of this northern berry.
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The stone bramble is a perennial plant; it blooms from May to June, and its flowers have a sweet fragrance. The berries begin to ripen in July or early August. The fruit of the stone bramble is a large bright-red or orange-red berry, which includes from one to five fruitlets. Each fruitlet has a seed inside. Stone bramble berries are edible raw; they are juicy and taste slightly sour, somewhat similar to the pomegranate. For this reason, they are even called northern pomegranate. The berries can also be cooked to make jelly-like soft drinks, fresh fruit drinks, jellies, jams, and other desserts.
Since the fruit of the stone bramble contain organic acids, pectin, vitamin C, and volatile organic compounds, they are used for nutrition purposes. The aerial parts of the plant are rich in flavonoids, tannins, and ascorbic acid. The leaves are collected and made use of, with no regard to whether they are clean and healthy or have brown and rust-brown spots indicating fungal diseases. They undergo quick drying and are added to water-based decoctions and infusions.
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Kuzebai Gerd National Museum of the Republic of Udmurtia
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Stone bramble
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40x30 cm
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