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Vaccinium angustifolium

Shrub

HomeShrubVaccinium angustifolium

Dry open barrens, peats and rocks.

Family: Ericaceae
Height: 0.2 m / 1 ft
Sun, Semi-shade
Light, Medium Soil
Dry to Moist

Plant Rating

Edible Uses: 3 of 5
Medicinal Uses: 1 of 5
Other Uses: 0 of 5

Native Habitat

Low Sweet Blueberry, Lowbush blueberry Vaccinium angustifolium native habitat is Dry open barrens, peats and rocks.

Edible Uses

Fruit - raw, cooked or used in preserves etc. A very sweet pleasant flavour with a slight taste of honey. Largely grown for the canning industry, it is considered to be the best of the lowbush type blueberries. The fruit can be dried and used like raisins. The fruit is about 12mm in diameter. This is the earliest commercially grown blueberry to ripen. A tea is made from the leaves and dried fruits.

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