A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife
Project Noah Nature School
Vaccinium macrocarpon
It is native to North America (eastern Canada, and eastern United States, south to North Carolina at high altitudes).
North Carolina Botanical Garden
Spotted on Jul 31, 2013
Submitted on Oct 11, 2013
3 Comments
How nice that a cranberry was featured in a Fun Fact! They are delicious! Thanks, Lisa!
Project Noah Fun Fact: To continue with our North American holiday theme, we would like to introduce you the cranberry! First named by early European settlers in America who felt the expanding flower, stem, calyx, and petals resembled the neck, head, and bill of a crane, the name eventually derived into cranberry. Native Americans used cranberries in a variety of foods, medicines and dye. The Algonquian peoples were believed to have introduced cranberries to starving English settlers in Massachusetts who incorporated the berries into traditional Thanksgiving feasts. There are four species that can be found across the northern hemisphere in cooler climates where they inhabit bogs. They are a major commercial crop in the U.S. and Canada. Cranberries are mostly used to make juice, eaten as dried fruit and as a relish or jellied side dish.
Large (American) Cranberry spotted by Project Noah member Maria dB:
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/437...
Congrats Maria dB! This spotting was featured as one of our Project Noah Fun Facts!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=...