Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Vaccinium fuscatum, the black highbush blueberry, [1] is a species of flowering plant in the heath family . It is native to North America, where it is found in Ontario, Canada and the eastern United States. [2] Its typical natural habitat is wet areas such as bogs, pocosins, and swamps. [3] Vaccinium fuscatum is an upright deciduous shrub.
Floral and leaf buds develop intermittently along the stems of the plant, with each floral bud giving rise to 5–6 flowers and the eventual fruit. [3] Wild blueberries prefer an acidic soil between 4.2 and 5.2 pH and only moderate amounts of moisture. [3] They have a hardy cold tolerance in their range in Canada and the northern United States. [3]
Vaccinium formosum is a deciduous shrub that grows to approximately 4–4.5 metres (13–15 ft) tall. [1] [2] The plant has green stems that turn into woody growth as the stems age. [2]
The flowers are pale pink, bell-shaped, 6–8 mm long, opening in the early spring before the new leaves appear. The fruit is an edible berry 5–8 mm diameter. There are two variants one having tart shiny blue black berries and the other sweeter type having a whitish waxy bloom over the otherwise blue black berries; they ripen from late spring ...
The flowers are white or pink, [5] bell-shaped, 4 to 6 millimetres (1 ⁄ 8 to 1 ⁄ 4 in) long. [6] The fruit is a small sweet dark blue to black berry, full of antioxidants and flavonoids . Several buds may be on a healthy stem, and each bud can open up and have several blossoms.
Vaccinium tenellum, the small black blueberry is a plant species native to the southeastern United States from southeastern Mississippi to northern Florida to southern Virginia. It grows in forests and in shrubby areas at elevations up to 200 m. [2] Vaccinium tenellum is a deciduous shrub up to 80 cm tall, often forming large colonies. Leaves ...
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).
Vaccinium cylindraceum, known by its common names such as Azores blueberry, (Portuguese: uva-da-serra, uva-do-mato) is a semi-deciduous species of Vaccinium endemic to the Azores. [3] It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society 's Award of Garden Merit as an ornamental.