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Rubus chamaemorus is a species of flowering plant in the rose family.Its English common names include cloudberry, [2] Nordic berry, bakeapple (in Newfoundland and Labrador), knotberry and knoutberry (in England), aqpik or low-bush salmonberry (in Alaska – not to be confused with salmonberry, Rubus spectabilis), [3] and averin or evron (in Scotland).
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.
It is an epigynous berry, with the majority of the flesh of the fruit being composed of the fleshy calyx. The plant is a calcifuge, favoring acidic soil, in pine or hardwood forests, although it generally produces fruit only in sunnier areas. [5] It often grows as part of the heath complex in an oak–heath forest. [6] [7] [8]
Rubus, or Bramble, [4] is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae, subfamily Rosoideae, most commonly known as brambles. [3] [5] [6] Fruits of various species are known as raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, and bristleberries.
Blueberries are a widely distributed and widespread group of perennial flowering plants with blue or purple berries. They are classified in the section Cyanococcus with the genus Vaccinium. [1] Commercial blueberries—both wild (lowbush) and cultivated (highbush)—are all native to North America.
Rubus parviflorus is a dense shrub up to 2.5 meters (8 feet) tall with canes no more than 1.5 centimeters (1 ⁄ 2 inch) in diameter, often growing in large clumps which spread through the plant's underground rhizome.
The berries ripen in September through October and are a favorite among wild bird species including cardinals, mockingbirds, finches, woodpeckers and more. Beautyberry is commonly planted in landscape designs to attract wildlife because of the food source the berries provide and the cover animals get from the shrub itself. [ 4 ]
The plant produces these pigments mainly in the leaves and skin of the berries to protect the pulp and seeds from constant exposure to ultraviolet radiation and production of free radicals. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] [ 36 ] By absorbing UV rays in the blue -purple spectrum, leaf and skin pigments filter intense sunlight, serve antioxidant functions and ...