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Blueberries are a widely distributed and widespread group of perennial flowering plants with blue or purple berries. They are classified in the section Cyanococcus within the genus Vaccinium. [1] Commercial blueberries—both wild (lowbush) and cultivated (highbush)—are all native to North America.
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 caesariense (New Jersey blueberry) is native to the Eastern United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a species in the genus Vaccinium , which includes blueberries , cranberries , huckleberries , and bilberries .
Native Americans used chokecherry tea to treat ailments like colds, tuberculosis and diarrhea, while the berries were eaten raw to aid digestion. Recipes: Chokecherry Jelly , Chokecherry Coulis ...
The Hesquiaht First Nation make pies and preserves from the berries. [11] The Hoh and Quileute consume the fruit raw, stew the berries and make them into a sauce, and can the berries and use them as a winter food. [12] The Ojibwa make use of the berries, gathering and selling them, eating them fresh, sun drying and canning them for future use. [13]
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.