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Historically, cranberry beds were constructed in wetlands. Today's cranberry beds are constructed in upland areas with a shallow water table. The topsoil is scraped off to form dykes around the bed perimeter. Clean sand is hauled in and spread to a depth of 10 to 20 centimeters (4 to 8 in). The surface is laser leveled flat to provide even ...
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 ]
It is a pollinator of cranberries, nesting in sand beds. [2] References This page was last edited on 7 ... Contact Wikipedia; Code of Conduct; Developers;
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]
Viburnum trilobum (cranberrybush viburnum, American cranberrybush, high bush cranberry, or highbush cranberry) is a species of Viburnum native to northern North America, from Newfoundland west to British Columbia, south to Washington state and east to northern Virginia.
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 ...
Styphelia humifusa was first formally described in 1797 by Antonio José Cavanilles who gave it the name Ventenatia humifusa in his Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum. [4] [5] In 1805, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon transferred the species to Styphelia as S. humifusa in his book Synopsis plantarum, seu enchiridium botanicum.