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Vaccinium ovatum is a North American species of huckleberry in the heather family commonly known as the evergreen huckleberry, winter huckleberry, cynamoka berry and California huckleberry. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It has a large distribution on the Pacific Coast of North America ranging from southern British Columbia to southern California.
The Kutenai called the black huckleberry shawíash (Ktunaxa: ǂawiyaǂ). [11] Alaska Natives consumed it in bread and pies as a source of vitamin C , the Coeur d'Alene people ate the fruit fresh, dried, mashed, cooked, and added it to soup or froze it for later use, and many other groups relished it and stored it frozen, dried, pressed into ...
Vaccinium / v æ k ˈ s ɪ n i ə m / [3] is a common and widespread genus of shrubs or dwarf shrubs in the heath family (Ericaceae). The fruits of many species are eaten by humans and some are of commercial importance, including the cranberry, blueberry, bilberry (whortleberry), lingonberry (cowberry), and huckleberry.
Vaccinium arboreum is a shrub (rarely a small tree) growing to 3–5 metres (10– 16 + 1 ⁄ 2 ft), rarely 9 m (30 ft) tall, [citation needed] with a diameter at breast height of up to 35 centimetres (14 in). [4]
[6] [7] Another cultivated species of similar size and habitats is the evergreen Vaccinium ovatum (evergreen huckleberry). As a crop plant (along with the other huckleberries of the genus in western North America), it is not currently grown on a large commercial agriculture scale, despite efforts to make this possible. [ 8 ]
A number of plants in the genus Vaccinium share the common name Evergreen blueberry: Vaccinium darrowii (Darrow's evergreen blueberry, southeastern United States) Vaccinium myrsinites (Shiny blueberry, southeastern United States) Vaccinium ovatum (Evergreen huckleberry, Pacific coast of North America)
Common English names include huckleberry (shared with plants in several other genera) and "dangleberry". Gaylussacia plants are often a component of an oak-heath forest . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] They are deciduous or evergreen shrubs growing to a height of 0.4–1.8 metres (1 ft 4 in – 5 ft 11 in).
Vaccinium ovalifolium (commonly known as Alaska blueberry, early blueberry, oval-leaf bilberry, oval-leaf blueberry, and oval-leaf huckleberry) [2] is a plant in the heath family with three varieties, all of which grow in northerly regions (e.g. the subarctic).