Tasty BlueBerry Fruit
Many commercially
sold species with English common names including "blueberry" are
currently classified in section Cyanococcus of the genus Vaccinium and come
predominantly from North America. Many North American native species of
blueberries are grown commercially in the Southern Hemisphere in Australia, New
Zealand
and South American nations. Several other wild shrubs of the genus
Vaccinium also produce commonly eaten blue berries, such as the predominantly
European Vaccinium myrtillus and other bilberries, which in many languages have
a name that translates to "blueberry" in English. See the
Identification section for more information.
Blueberries are usually erect, prostrate shrubs that can vary in size from 10 centimeters to 4 meters in height. In the commercial production of blueberries, the smaller species are known as "low-bush blueberrie, while the larger species are known as "high-bush blueberries".
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Blueberries are usually erect,
prostrate shrubs that can vary in size from 10 centimeters (3.9 in) to 4 meters
in height. In the commercial production of
blueberries, the smaller species are known as "low-bush blueberries",
while the larger species are known as "high-bush blueberries". The
leaves can be either deciduous or evergreen, ovate to lanceolate, and 1–8 cm long
and 0.5–3.5 cm broad. The flowers are bell-shaped, white, pale pink or red,
sometimes tinged greenish. The fruit is a berry 5–16 millimeters in diameter
with a flared crown at the end; they are pale greenish at first, then
reddish-purple, and finally dark purple when ripe.
They are covered in a
protective coating of powdery epicuticular wax, colloquially known as the
"bloom". They have a sweet taste when mature, with variable acidity.
Blueberry bushes typically bear fruit in the middle of the growing season:
fruiting times are affected by local conditions such as altitude and latitude,
so the peak of the crop can vary from May to August (in the northern
hemisphere) depending upon these conditions.
Blueberries are
perennial flowering plants with indigo-colored berries from the section
Cyanococcus within the genus Vaccinium. Species in the section Cyanococcus are
the most common fruits sold as
"blueberries" and are native to North America (commercially
cultivated highbush blueberries were not introduced into Europe until the
1930s). Blueberries are usually erect, prostrate shrubs that can vary in size from 10 centimeters to 4 meters in height. In the commercial production of blueberries, the smaller species are known as "low-bush blueberrie, while the larger species are known as "high-bush blueberries".
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