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Vaccinium parvifolium (Red huckleberry)

Other names: Red bilberry, Red whortleberry

V. parvifolium is an upright, deciduous shrub with oblong, blue-green leaves turning bright red in autumn an urn-shaped, often pink-flushed, white flowers in late spring and early summer followed by spherical, edible, red fruit.
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2m max. spread

3m max. height

10-20 years to maturity

Vaccinium ovatum (Californian huckleberry)

Other names: California huckleberry, Evergreen huckleberry, Shot huckleberry, Box blueberry

V. ovatum is an upright, bushy, evergreen shrub with arching branches bearing densely arranged, ovate, toothed, leathery, glossy, dark green leaves, bronze when young. Dense, pendent racemes of urn-shaped or cylindrical, pink-flushed, white flowers in late spring and early summer followed by edible, spherical, glossy, black fruit.
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3m max. spread

4m max. height

10-20 years to maturity

Vaccinium vitis-idaea (Cowberry)

Other names: Foxberry, Mountain cranberry, Lowbush cranberry, Hurtleberry, Hurts, Lingonberry, Whinberry, Munshock, Red whortleberry, Brawlins, Flowering box, Lingberry, Foxberry, Partridge berry

V. vitis-idaea is a compact, evergreen, semi-woody fruiting perennial with a spreading habbit. It has glossy, tiny, green leaves and white, round berries that turn red when ripe.
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0.4m max. spread

0.4m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Vaccinium nummularia (Nummularia-like blueberry)

Other names: Himalayan whortleberry, Coin whortleberry

V. nummularia is a compact, slow-growing, evergreen shrub with small, oval to rounded, glossy, convex, dark green leaves, red when young, and clusters of pendent, urn-shaped, pink-tipped, white flowers in spring followed by edible, blue-black fruit.
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0.9m max. spread

0.3m max. height

10-20 years to maturity

Vaccinium arboreum (Farkleberry)

Other names: Sparkleberry, Tree whortleberry, Winter huckleberry, Batodendron andrachniforme, Batodendron arboreum, Vaccinium arboreum var. glaucescens, Missouri farkleberry, Vaccinium diffusum

V. arboreum is a spreading, deciduous to semi-evergreen shrub or small tree with exfoliating, grey to reddish-brown bark and leathery, glossy, ovate to elliptic, dark green leaves turning red to reddish-brown in autumn. Racemes of fragrant, bell-shaped, white flowers in spring are followed by spherical, edible, glossy, black fruit.
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4.5m max. spread

5.5m max. height

10-20 years to maturity

Vaccinium 'Brigitta' (Highbush blueberry 'Brigitta')

Other names: Northern highbush blueberry 'Brigitta'

'Brigitta' is a vigorous, upright, deciduous shrub with elliptic, mid-green leaves turning orange or red in autumn, clusters of waxy, bell-shaped, white flowers in spring and heavy yields of medium to large, edible, light blue berries in late summer and early autumn.
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1.8m max. spread

1.8m max. height

10-20 years to maturity

Vaccinium angustifolium (Late sweet blueberry)

Other names: Lowbush blueberry, Low sweet blueberry, Narrow-leaved whortleberry, Sweet-hurts, Early blueberry, Vaccinium lamarckii, Vaccinium pensylvanicum, Vaccinium nigrum, Vaccinium angustifolium var. nigrum, Vaccinium angustifolium var. laevifolium

V. angustifolium is a compact, spreading, deciduous shrub with broadly elliptic, glossy, blue-green leaves turning purple in autumn and racemes of bell-shaped, pink-flushed, white flowers in late spring and early summer followed by blue-black fruit.
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0.9m max. spread

0.6m max. height

10-20 years to maturity

Vaccinium 'Northcountry' (Highbush blueberry 'Northcountry')

Other names: Vaccinium corymbosum 'Northcountry', Vaccinium 'North Country', Early season blueberry 'Northcountry', Half-high highbush blueberry 'Northcountry'

'Northcountry' is a compact, mound-forming, deciduous to semi-evergreen shrub with narrowly elliptic, dark blue-green leaves turning scarlet in autumn, and, in early spring, pendent racemes of bell-shaped, white flowers followed by edible, blue fruit ready for harvest in early to midsummer.
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1m max. spread

0.7m max. height

10-20 years to maturity

Vaccinium erythrocarpum (Southern mountain cranberry)

Other names: Mountain blueberry, Bearberry, Arando, Dingleberry, Hugeria erythrocarpa, Oxycoccus erythrocarpus

V. erythrocarpum is an erect, branching, deciduous shrub with ovate to lance-shaped, finely toothed, mid- to dark green leaves and tubular, red or pink flowers with curled petals. Flowers are followed by spherical, edible, translucent, scarlet fruit.
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1.2m max. spread

1.5m max. height

10-20 years to maturity

Vaccinium myrsinites (Shiny blueberry)

Other names: Evergreen blueberry, Florida evergreen blueberry, Vaccinium nitidum, Cyanococcus myrsinites

V. myrsinites is a compact, upright, dense, borderline hardy, evergreen shrub with small, glossy, leathery, elliptic, mid-green leaves and clusters of urn-shaped, white to pink, often red-flushed flowers in spring. Flowers are followed by small, spherical, edible, red fruit ripening black.
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1m max. spread

1m max. height

10-20 years to maturity