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In 2019, Canada was the largest producer of wild blueberries, mainly in Quebec and the Atlantic provinces, [47] but Canadian production of wild blueberries decreased since 2017 by transitioning to the more profitable cultivated highbush blueberries. [48] British Columbia produced 93% of the Canadian highbush blueberry crop in 2019. [47]
Vaccinium angustifolium, commonly known as the wild lowbush blueberry, is a species of blueberry native to eastern and central Canada and the northeastern United States. It is the most common commercially used wild blueberry and is considered the "low sweet" berry.
There is no blueberry domesticated industry. [10] Instead semi-wild stands are planted and managed and may form the basis of a larger industry in the future. [10] The provincial government provides information for production of raspberry. [11] Saskatoonberry could be a much larger industry. [12] There is high demand and little supply. [12]
Vaccinium myrtilloides is a North American shrub with common names including common blueberry, velvetleaf huckleberry, velvetleaf blueberry, Canadian blueberry, and sourtop blueberry. [ 3 ] Description
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 boreale is a lowbush blueberry, [1] forming a small shrub up to 9 centimetres (3 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) tall, in dense colonies of many individuals. Twigs are green, angled, with lines of hairs. Leaves are deciduous, narrowly elliptic, up to 21 millimetres (7 ⁄ 8 in) long, with teeth along the margins.
Wild blueberries grow in abundance in the Maritimes and are commonly picked, although they are quite small compared to commercially available blueberries. They can be made into the dumpling dessert called blueberry grunt, [13] among others. In Nova Scotia, a dish known as hodge podge or hodegy podegy is widely eaten in the Annapolis Valley.
It is a deciduous shrub or small tree that most often grows to 1–8 metres (3–26 feet), [3] rarely to 10 m or 33 ft, [4] in height. Its growth form spans from suckering and forming colonies to clumped. [5]