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carmogilev/Getty Images. Scientific name: Rubus ursinus x Rubus idaeus Taste: Sweet, tangy, floral Health benefits: Boysenberries—a cross between a raspberry, blackberry, dewberry and loganberry ...
The berry industry varies from country to country as do types of berries cultivated or growing in the wild. Some berries such as raspberries and strawberries have been bred for hundreds of years and are distinct from their wild counterparts, while other berries, such as lingonberries and cloudberries , grow almost exclusively in the wild.
Vaccinium angustifolium, commonly known as the wild lowbush blueberry, is a species of blueberry native to eastern and central Canada and the northeastern United States. It is the most common commercially used wild blueberry and is considered the "low sweet" berry.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the town of Cameron, North Carolina, was known as the "dewberry capital of the world" for large-scale cultivation of this berry, which was shipped out for widespread consumption. Local growers made extensive use of the railroads in the area to ship them nationally and internationally.
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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 ...
The flower of this species is among the largest of any Rubus species. [7] [3] The plant produces edible composite fruit approximately 1 cm (1 ⁄ 2 in) in diameter, which ripen to a bright red in mid to late summer. Like raspberries, it is not a true berry, but instead an aggregate fruit of numerous drupelets around a central core.
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