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Vaccinium corymbosum is a deciduous shrub growing to 1.8–3.7 metres (6–12 ft) tall and wide. It is often found in dense thickets. The dark glossy green leaves are elliptical and up to 5 centimetres (2 in) long. In autumn, the leaves turn to a brilliant red, orange, yellow, and/or purple. [3] [4]
Florida growers -- mostly family farmers – produce more than 5,700 acres of blueberries, producing about 20 million pounds per season.
Maine is known for its wild blueberries, [27] but the state's lowbush (wild) and highbush blueberries combined account for 10% of all blueberries grown in North America. Some 44,000 hectares (110,000 acres) are farmed, but only half of this acreage is harvested each year due to variations in pruning practices. [ 28 ]
Vaccinium uliginosum is a small deciduous shrub growing to 10–75 centimetres (4– 29 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches) tall, rarely 1 metre (3 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet) tall, with brown stems (unlike the green stems of the closely related bilberry).
Vaccinium tenellum, the small black blueberry is a plant species native to the southeastern United States from southeastern Mississippi to northern Florida to southern Virginia. It grows in forests and in shrubby areas at elevations up to 200 m. [2] Vaccinium tenellum is a deciduous shrub up to 80 cm tall, often forming large colonies. Leaves ...
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V. angustifolium growing in a forest of another fire-adapted species, Pinus banksiana. Vaccinium angustifolium is a low spreading deciduous shrub growing 5 to 60 centimetres (2 to 23 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) tall. [4] Its rhizomes can lie dormant up to 100 years, and when given the adequate amount of sunlight, soil moisture, and oxygen content they will ...
Vaccinium myrsinites is an erect, branching shrub that reaches one meter (40 inches) in maximum height. It is rhizomatous and can form very large colonies.Colonies measuring one kilometer (0.63 miles ) across and over 1,000 years old have been observed. [3]