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  2. Vaccinium - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Blueberry - Wikipedia

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    The fruit is a berry 5–16 mm (3 ⁄ 16 – 5 ⁄ 8 in) in diameter with a flared crown at the end; they are pale greenish at first, then reddish-purple, and finally uniformly blue when ripe. [5] They are covered in a protective coating of powdery epicuticular wax, colloquially known as the "bloom". [3]

  4. Category:Berries - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wiktionary; Wikidata item; Appearance. ... Berry liqueurs (6 P) B. Bananas (8 C, 34 P ...

  5. Wikipedia : Featured pictures/Plants/Fruits

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... whole fruit, by Mydreamsparrow (edited by Crisco 1492) ... Alaska Wild Berries at Berry, ...

  6. Vaccinium myrtillus - Wikipedia

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    Vaccinium myrtillus or European blueberry is a holarctic species of shrub with edible fruit of blue color, known by the common names bilberry, blaeberry, wimberry, and whortleberry. [3] It is more precisely called common bilberry or blue whortleberry to distinguish it from other Vaccinium relatives.

  7. Shepherdia - Wikipedia

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    The plants have rather bitter-tasting berries. The fruit are often eaten by bears, which by legend, prefer the berries to maintain fat stores during hibernation. [6] Buffaloberries are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including Ectropis crepuscularia (recorded from S. canadensis) and Coleophora elaeagnisella.

  8. Rubus chamaemorus - Wikipedia

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    Rubus chamaemorus is a species of flowering plant in the rose family Rosaceae, native to cool temperate regions, alpine and Arctic tundra and boreal forest. [2] This herbaceous perennial produces amber-colored edible fruit similar to the blackberry.

  9. Fruit (plant structure) - Wikipedia

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    These fruits depend on animals to eat the fruits and disperse the seeds in order for their populations to survive. [3] Dry fruits also develop from the ovary, but unlike the fleshy fruits they do not depend on the mesocarp but the endocarp for seed dispersal. [3] Dry fruits depend more on physical forces, like wind and water.