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Northern highbush blueberry. A number of popular and commercially important food plants are native to the Americas.Some are endemic, meaning they occur naturally only in the Americas and nowhere else, while others occur naturally both in the Americas and on other continents as well.
Commercial blueberries—both wild (lowbush) and cultivated (highbush)—are all native to North America. The highbush varieties were introduced into Europe during the 1930s. [2] Blueberries are usually prostrate shrubs that can vary in size from 10 centimeters (4 inches) to 4 meters (13 feet) in height. In commercial production of blueberries ...
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.
Wild blueberry: 1991 [50] State herb: Wintergreen: 1999 [51] State dessert: Blueberry pie made with wild Maine blueberries: 2011 [52] [53] State treat: Whoopie pie: 2011 [54] [53] State sweetener: Pure Maine maple syrup: 2015 [55] Maryland: State dessert: Smith Island Cake: 2008 [56] State drink Milk 1998 [57] State crustacean Blue crab: 1989 ...
Vaccinium myrtilloides is a North American shrub with common names including common blueberry, velvetleaf huckleberry, velvetleaf blueberry, Canadian blueberry, and sourtop blueberry. [ 3 ] Description
Some named Southern highbush blueberry are hybridized forms derived from crosses between V. corymbosum and V. darrowii, a native of the Southeastern U.S. These hybrids and other cultivars of V. darrowii (Southern highbush blueberry) have been developed for cultivation in warm southern and western regions of North America. [17] [18]
Vaccinium formosum is a deciduous shrub that grows to approximately 4–4.5 metres (13–15 ft) tall. [1] [2] The plant has green stems that turn into woody growth as the stems age. [2]
Vaccinium boreale is a lowbush blueberry, [1] forming a small shrub up to 9 centimetres (3 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) tall, in dense colonies of many individuals. Twigs are green, angled, with lines of hairs. Leaves are deciduous, narrowly elliptic, up to 21 millimetres (7 ⁄ 8 in) long, with teeth along the margins.