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The flowers are dark pink. The fruit is a berry that is larger than the leaves of the plant; it is initially light green, turning red when ripe. It is edible, but has an acidic taste. In Britain, cranberry may refer to the native species Vaccinium oxycoccos, [1] while in North America, cranberry may refer to V. macrocarpon. [2]
Vaccinium macrocarpon, also called large cranberry, American cranberry and bearberry, is a North American species of cranberry in the subgenus Oxycoccus. [ 4 ] The name cranberry comes from shape of the flower stamen , which looks like a crane 's beak.
Cotoneaster apiculatus, the cranberry cotoneaster, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is native to central China, and it has been introduced to various locales in Europe and the United States. [ 2 ]
The flowers are 8–10 cm (3–4 in) in diameter, white to pale yellow with a dark red spot at the base of each petal, and have a stout, conspicuous calyx at the base, 1–2 cm (0.39–0.79 in) wide, enlarging to 3–3.5 cm (1.2–1.4 in) and becoming fleshy and a deep crimson red as the fruit matures, which takes about six months.
It is known colloquially as the lingonberry, partridgeberry, [a] foxberry, mountain cranberry, or cowberry. It is native to boreal forest and Arctic tundra throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Commercially cultivated in the United States Pacific Northwest [ 4 ] and the Netherlands , [ 5 ] the edible berries are also picked in the wild and used ...
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Ochna integerrima, [1] popularly called yellow Mai flower (Vietnamese: mai vàng, hoa mai, hoàng mai in southern Vietnam, although in the north, mai usually refers to Prunus mume), is a plant species in the genus Ochna (/ ˈ ɒ k n ə /) and family Ochnaceae. In the wild, it is a small tree or shrub species (2-7 m tall).
This cranberry is a small, prostrate shrub with vine-like stems that root at the nodes. The evergreen leaves are leathery and lance-shaped, up to 1.2 cm (1 ⁄ 2 in) long. [5] [7] The stems are a few centimeters tall, upon which are one to a few nodding flowers with four-petals. [7]