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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 the commercial production of ...
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.
The berries were collected and used in Native American cuisine in areas where V. corymbosum grew natively. [12] Many wild species of Vaccinium are thought to have been cultivated by Native Americans for thousands of years, with intentional crop burnings in northeastern areas being apparent from archeological evidence. [5]
The lowbush blueberry is native to central and eastern Canada (from Manitoba to Newfoundland) as well as north-central and eastern United States [8] (growing as far south as the Great Smoky Mountains and west to the Great Lakes region). [9] [10] In its native habitat the plant grows in open conifer woods, old fields, and sandy or rocky balds. [11]
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.
Kiwi berries are packed with vitamins, fiber, magnesium, potassium and antioxidants, like most of the berries on this list. One serving boasts five times the vitamin C of an orange , as well as 2 ...
The plant is native to cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, at low altitudes in the Arctic, Baltics, and at high altitudes south to the Pyrenees, the Alps, and the Caucasus in Europe, the mountains of Mongolia, northern China, the Korean Peninsula and central Japan in Asia, and the Sierra Nevada in California and the Rocky Mountains in Utah in North America.
Vaccinium caesariense is native to the Eastern United States, and is especially prominent in the New Jersey area, hence its common name. [1] [2] It is found in the coastal states from Florida to New Hampshire, almost always in wetlands. [2] [3] Some of its native habitats include pine barrens, upland meadows and woods, ravines, and mountain ...