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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 '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

1.8m max. height

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

0.3m max. height

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

0.1m 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 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 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 corymbosum 'Patriot' (Swamp blueberry 'Patriot')

'Patriot' is an upright, deciduous shrub with lance-shaped, mid-green leaves turning yellow or red in autumn, attractive white flowers in spring and tight clusters of large fruits in summer. This cultivar is tolerant of heavier, wetter soils.
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1m max. spread

1m max. height

10-20 years to maturity

Vaccinium corymbosum 'Bluecrop' (Highbush blueberry 'Bluecrop')

Other names: Swamp blueberry 'Bluecrop'

'Bluecrop' is an upright, deciduous shrub with lance-shaped, mid-green leaves that turn yellow or red in autumn, attractive white flowers in spring and early fruiting blueberries with a white bloom in summer.
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1m max. spread

1m max. height

10-20 years to maturity