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Cranberry sales in the United States have traditionally been associated with holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas. Annual U.S. crops of cranberries, 1907 to 1935. In the U.S., large-scale cranberry cultivation has been developed as opposed to other countries. American cranberry growers have a long history of cooperative marketing.
Vaccinium vitis-idaea is a small evergreen shrub in the heath family, Ericaceae. 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.
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.
The family is large, with about 4,250 known species spread across 124 genera, [2] making it the 14th most species-rich family of flowering plants. [3] The many well known and economically important members of the Ericaceae include the cranberry , blueberry , huckleberry , rhododendron (including azaleas ), and various common heaths and heathers ...
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.
Berries are often added to water and/or juiced, as in cranberry juice, which accounts for 95% of cranberry crop usage, [55] blueberry juice, raspberry juice, goji berry juice, acai juice, aronia berry juice, and strawberry juice. [56] [57] Wine is the principal fermented beverage made from berries (grapes).
In linguistic morphology a cranberry morpheme (also called unique morpheme or fossilized term) is a type of bound morpheme that cannot be assigned an independent meaning and grammatical function, but nonetheless serves to distinguish one word from another.
In 1911, he began a program of research in conjunction with White, daughter of the owner of the extensive cranberry bogs at Whitesbog in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. His work doubled the size of some strains' fruit, and by 1916, he had succeeded in cultivating blueberries, making them a valuable crop in the Northeastern United States.