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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

0.6m max. height

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

0.5m max. height

5-10 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

1.5m max. height

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

1.5m 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 vitis-idaea 'Red Candy' (Cowberry 'Red Candy')

Other names: Lowbush cranberry 'Red Candy', Lingonberry 'Red Candy', Lingberry 'Red Candy', Foxberry 'Red Candy', Hurtleberry 'Red Candy', Mountain cranberry 'Red Candy', Red whortleberry 'Red Candy', Whinberry 'Red Candy', Hurts 'Red Candy', Brawlins 'Red Candy', Flowering box 'Red Candy'

'Red Candy' is a compact, vigorous, bushy, evergreen shrub with obovate, glossy, dark green leaves and racemes of small, bell-shaped, white flowers in late spring and early summer followed by edible but acidic, spherical, dark red fruit.
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0.3m max. spread

0.2m max. height

5-10 years to maturity

Vaccinium macrocarpon 'Red Star' (Cranberry 'Red Star')

'Red Star' is a dwarf evergreen shrub with wiry stems, small leaves and white fruit turning red and edible when ripe.
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0.5m max. spread

0.1m max. height

10-20 years to maturity

Olea europaea 'Leccino' (Olive 'Leccino')

'Leccino' is a slow-growing, rounded, evergreen tree with semi-pendant branches bearing leathery, lance-shaped, mid- to dark green leaves, paler beneath, and panicles of tiny, fragrant, creamy-white flowers in late spring and early summer followed by edible, ovoid, green fruit ripening black.
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5m max. spread

10m max. height

10-20 years to maturity