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The name "bearberry" for the plant derives in part from the edible fruit which is a food for bears. [2] The fruits are gathered as food for humans, and the leaves are used in indigenous herbal medicine. [1] The alpine bearberry Arctostaphylos alpina (L.) Spreng (syn. Arctous alpinus (L.) Niedenzu) is a procumbent shrub 10–30 cm high (3.9–11 ...
Growing hollies successfully requires acid soil. We suggest adding Espoma “Holly Tone” fertilizer to the planting soil.
A Abelia Abeliophyllum (white forsythia) Abelmoschus (okra) Abies (fir) Abroma Abromeitiella (obsolete) Abronia (sand verbena) Abrus Abutilon Acacia (wattle) Acaena Acalypha Acanthaceae Acanthodium Acantholimon Acanthopale Acanthophoenix Acanthus Acca Acer (maple) Achariaceae Achillea (yarrow) Achimenantha (hybrid genus) Achimenes Acinos (calamint) Aciphylla Acmena Acoelorraphe (saw palm ...
In addition to seed propagation, new plants are formed from the tips of existing canes touching the ground. They thrive in moist soil and grow near and within wooded areas. [7] Unripe berries covered by glandular hairs. As a fruit develops, it is surrounded by a protective calyx covered in hairs that exude tiny drops of sticky fluid.
Kunzea pomifera, commonly known as muntries, emu apples, native cranberries, munthari, muntaberry or monterry [2] [3] (from Tanganekald Ngarrindjeri mantari [4]), is a low-growing or prostrate shrub with hairy stems, small, mostly egg-shaped leaves, groups of white flowers on the ends of the branches and fleshy, more or less spherical, edible fruit.
Rubus chamaemorus is a species of flowering plant in the rose family.Its English common names include cloudberry, [2] Nordic berry, bakeapple (in Newfoundland and Labrador), knotberry and knoutberry (in England), aqpik or low-bush salmonberry (in Alaska – not to be confused with salmonberry, Rubus spectabilis), [3] and averin or evron (in Scotland).
Rubus caesius 'Youngberry' Species Rubus caesius Cultivar 'Youngberry' Breeder Byrnes M. Young, a businessman in Morgan City, Louisiana The youngberry is a complex hybrid between three different berry species from the genus Rubus of the rose family: raspberry, blackberry, and dewberry. The berries of the plant are eaten fresh or used to make juice, jam, and in recipes. The youngberry was ...
In some exceptional cases, the shrub can grow up to 3 m in height. The leaves are opposite, oval, 1–2 cm long and 1-1.5 cm broad, entire, glossy dark green, with a spicy scent if crushed. The flowers are drooping, 1 cm diameter with four or five white or pale pink petals and numerous short stamens; the fruit is a small red, white or purple ...