Wild Wonders of Europe / Cairns / Crowberry (Empetrum nigrum hermaphroditum) with berries, Sarek National Park, Laponia World Heritage Site, Lapland, Sweden, September 2008

Erlend Haarberg / Crowberry (Empetrum nigrum) with ripe berries growing around fallen tree trunk, Ovre-Pasvik National Park, Finnmark, Norway, August

Laurie Campbell / Crowberry (Empetrum nigrum) fruit, Sutherland, Scotland, July

Wild Wonders of Europe / Lesniewski / Black Crowberry (Empetrum nigrum) with drops of dew. Bieszczady, Carpathian Mountains, Poland, September.

Oriol Alamany / Diddledee / Crowberry (Empetrum rubrum) berries growing in a rock scree, Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia, Chile, January

Oriol Alamany / Crowberry / Diddledee bush with berries (Empetrum rubrum) near Laguna Torre, Los Glaciares National Park, Patagonia, Argentina, January 2006

Robert Thompson / Crowberry {Empetrum nigrum} Tullagh Point, Malin Peninsula, County Donegal, Republic of Ireland, July

Robert Thompson / Crowberry {Empetrum nigrum} Tullagh Point, Malin Peninsula, County Donegal, Republic of Ireland, July

Konstantin Mikhailov / Crowberry berries {Empetrum nigrum} amongst white Reindeer moss {Caldonia rangiferina}, near the White Sea, Karelia, September 2007.

Niall Benvie / Crowberry fruits {Empetrum nigrum} Norway

Staffan Widstrand / Crowberry plant with fruit {Empetrum nigrum} Chukotka, Russia

Staffan Widstrand / Crowberry fruits (Empetrum nigrum) tundra, Siberia Russia

Niall Benvie / Crowberry berries {Empetrum nigrum} Beinn Eighe NNR, Scotland, UK Wester Ross