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Vaccinium angustifolium
Vaccinium angustifolium, commonly known as the wild lowbush blueberry and the low sweet berry is a species of blueberry native to eastern and central Canada, Great Lakes and the northeastern United States.
Vaccinium angustifolium is a low spreading deciduous shrub growing 5 to 60 centimetres (2 to 23+1⁄2 in) tall. Its rhizomes can lie dormant up to 100 years, sprouting when given the adequate amount of sunlight, soil moisture, and oxygen content.[citation needed] The leaves are glossy blue-green in summer, turning a variety of reds in the fall. The leaf shape is broad to elliptical, with the buds brownish red in stem axils.
The flowers are white or pink, bell-shaped, 4 to 6 millimetres (1⁄8 to 1⁄4 in) long. The fruit is a small sweet dark blue to black berry, full of antioxidants and flavonoids.
Several buds may be on a healthy stem, and each bud can open up and have several blossoms. A blueberry field that has full plant coverage can have as many as 150 million blossoms per acre.[citation needed]
Chromosome number is 2n = 48.
The species epithet angustifolium is a combination of the Latin words angustum meaning 'narrow', and folium meaning 'leaf'.[citation needed]
The lowbush blueberry is native to central and eastern Canada (from Manitoba to Newfoundland) as well as north-central and eastern United States (growing as far south as the Great Smoky Mountains and west to the Great Lakes region). In its native habitat the plant grows in open conifer woods, old fields, and sandy or rocky balds.
Glacier ice from the Ice Age sculpted the Maine landscape and is responsible for creating some of the most productive V. angustifolium habitats. The species is fire-tolerant, and its numbers often increase in an area following a forest fire.[citation needed]
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Vaccinium angustifolium
Vaccinium angustifolium, commonly known as the wild lowbush blueberry and the low sweet berry is a species of blueberry native to eastern and central Canada, Great Lakes and the northeastern United States.
Vaccinium angustifolium is a low spreading deciduous shrub growing 5 to 60 centimetres (2 to 23+1⁄2 in) tall. Its rhizomes can lie dormant up to 100 years, sprouting when given the adequate amount of sunlight, soil moisture, and oxygen content.[citation needed] The leaves are glossy blue-green in summer, turning a variety of reds in the fall. The leaf shape is broad to elliptical, with the buds brownish red in stem axils.
The flowers are white or pink, bell-shaped, 4 to 6 millimetres (1⁄8 to 1⁄4 in) long. The fruit is a small sweet dark blue to black berry, full of antioxidants and flavonoids.
Several buds may be on a healthy stem, and each bud can open up and have several blossoms. A blueberry field that has full plant coverage can have as many as 150 million blossoms per acre.[citation needed]
Chromosome number is 2n = 48.
The species epithet angustifolium is a combination of the Latin words angustum meaning 'narrow', and folium meaning 'leaf'.[citation needed]
The lowbush blueberry is native to central and eastern Canada (from Manitoba to Newfoundland) as well as north-central and eastern United States (growing as far south as the Great Smoky Mountains and west to the Great Lakes region). In its native habitat the plant grows in open conifer woods, old fields, and sandy or rocky balds.
Glacier ice from the Ice Age sculpted the Maine landscape and is responsible for creating some of the most productive V. angustifolium habitats. The species is fire-tolerant, and its numbers often increase in an area following a forest fire.[citation needed]
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