Vaccinium pallidum (Blue Ridge blueberry)
Other names: Hillside blueberry, Late lowbush blueberry, Early lowbush blueberry, Vaccinium vacillans
V. pallidum is an upright, rounded, deciduous shrub with ovate to broadly elliptic, mid- to yellow-green leaves turning shades of orange and red in autumn and raceme-like clusters of urn-shaped, white to pale yellow flowers in late spring and early summer. Flowers are followed by edible, dark blue fruit.
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1m max. spread |
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1m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Vaccinium moupinense (Himalayan blueberry)
Other names: Vaccinium sikangense
V. moupinense is a compact, rounded, evergreen shrub with leathery, glossy, elliptic to oblong, dark green leaves, bronze when new and flushed reddish-purple in winter. Pendent racemes of tiny, urn-shaped, reddish-brown flowers in late spring and early summer are followed by spherical, edible, purple-black fruit.
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0.9m max. spread |
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0.6m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Daboecia cantabrica (Irish heath )
Other names: Cantabrian heath, St. Dabeoc's heath, Bell heath, Connemara heath, Vaccinium cantabricum
D. cantabrica is a variable, compact, upright or prostrate, evergreen shrub with oval to lance-shaped, dark green leaves, silver-hairy beneath, and, from early summer into autumn, erect racemes of upright or pendent, urn-shaped flowers in shades of white, pink, or red.
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0.7m max. spread |
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0.5m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Vaccinium 'Earliblue' (Highbush blueberry 'Earliblue')
Other names: Swamp blueberry 'Earliblue', Vaccinium corymbosum 'Early Blue', Vaccinium corymbosum 'Earliblue'
'Earliblue' is an upright, deciduous shrub with lance-shaped, mid-green leaves turning yellow or red in autumn, attractive white flowers in spring and early fruiting, light-blue berries with a white bloom in summer.
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1m max. spread |
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1.8m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Vaccinium myrtillus (Common bilberry)
Other names: Whortleberry, Whinberry, Blackheart, Blaeberry, Bullberries, Blueberry, Blackberry, Fragham, Frocken, Hartberries, Horts, Huckleberry, Hurtleberry, Whortle bilberry
V. myrtillus is a vigorous, creeping, deciduous shrub with dense, upright stems, oval to elliptic, toothed, glossy, bright green leaves, often red-flushed in autumn, and, in late spring and early summer, pendent, rounded, urn-shaped pink flowers followed by edible, spherical, blue-black berries.
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1m max. spread |
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0.3m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Vaccinium cylindraceum (Azores blueberry)
V. cylindraceum is a decidious shrub forming bright, finely toothed leaves and pale yellow flowers from pink buds followed by blue-black berries.
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1m max. spread |
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1.5m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Vaccinium macrocarpon (Cranberry)
Other names: Oxycoccos macrocarpus , Large cranberry, American Cranberry, Bearberry
V. macrocarpon is a prostrate, mat-forming, evergreen shrub with slender shoots and oblong, dark green leaves that turn bronze in winter. Pendent, bell-shaped pink flowers bloom in summer followed by edible, red berries in autumn.
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0.5m max. spread |
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0.1m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Vaccinium glaucoalbum (Grey-white blueberry)
Other names: Grey-white blueberry bush
V. glaucoalbum is an evergreen shrub with dark grey-green leaves white underneath, and pale pink flowers followed by white-bloomed black berries.
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1m max. spread |
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1.5m max. height |
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10-20 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 |
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0.3m max. height |
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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 |
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0.6m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
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