Chiba University Matsudo/Kashiwa Campus Plant Database

Details of genus: Vaccinium L. [188]

genus_ja:

genus_en: Bilberry, Blueberry, Cranberry, Whortleberry

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accepted: Accepted

Family: Ericaceae

family_ja: ツツジ

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distribution_en:

description_en: Genus of about 450 species of evergreen, semi-evergreen, or deciduous shrubs and trees, widely distributed throughout arctic and tropical regions, occurring in a variety of habitats from heath and moorland to bogs and woodland. They are valued for their ornamental foliage, flowers, and berries. The leathery leaves are alternate, and may be lance-shaped to elliptic, ovate, or rounded, with entire or toothed margins; in some of the deciduous species, the leaves provide brilliant autumn colour. The small, urn-or bell-shaped to cylindrical flowers are white, green, pink, or red, and are produced either singly in the leaf axils or in terminal or axillary racemes in spring and summer. The flowers are followed by edible, usually spherical berries; some species, including V. angustifolium var. laevifolium, V. corymbosum, and V. macrocarpon, are grown primarily for their fruits (blueberries and cranberries). Vacciniums are best suited to a wood-land garden.

hardiness_en: Fully hardy to frost hardy.

cultivation_en:

propagation_en: Sow seed in containers in a cold frame in autumn. Take greenwood cuttings of deciduous species in early summer, and semi-ripe cuttings of evergreens in mid- to late summer. Layer in late summer.

pests_en: May be affected by Phytophthora crown and root rot.

description_ja:

comment: Widely spreaded

comment_ja: スノキ，コケモモ，ブルーベリー(blueberry)

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Update Information: Created: 2007-12-06 12:51; Updated: 2020-09-04 03:56

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