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Vaccinium angustifolium
Vaccinium angustifolium is a low spreading deciduous shrub growing to 60 cm tall, though usually 35 cm tall or less. The leaves are glossy blue-green in summer, turning purple in the fall. The leaf shape is broad to elyptic. Buds are brownish red in stem axels. The flowers are white, bell-shaped, 5 mm long. The fruit is a small sweet dark blue to black berry. This plant grows best in wooded or open areas with well-drained acidic soils. In some areas it produces natural blueberry barrens, where it is practically the only species covering large areas.
Vaccinium angustifolium, commonly known as the Lowbush Blueberry, is a species of blueberry native to eastern and central Canada and the northeastern United States, growing as far south as West Virginia and west to the Great Lakes region, Minnesota and Manitoba.
So much better than the blueberries you buy in a grocery store. If you find them, eat them. But watch out for Bears!
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Yummy!
Thank you for the invitation, lgCostaNut!
Delicious! you can add this to the new "color blue" mission:
http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8382...
I LOVE blueberries. They look great!
Blueberries next to Rainbow trout! Umm sounds like lunch time.
Yum!!