VACCINIUM
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VACCINIUM
Commonly known as Bearberry, Bilberry, Blueberry
Includes the bilberry, blueberry, and cranberry.
Genus of about 450 species from a variety of habitats from heath and moorland to bogs and woodland.
UK natives are V. myrtilis, bilberry, blaeberry, whortleberry and a host of local names and V. oxycoccus, cranberry, more common in northern England, Wales and Ireland and V. vitis-idaea, cowberry or red whortleberry from the Scottish Highlands.
Full Plant Details - Sun/Soil & other attributes
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Resistant to honey fungusThese plants have little or few problems with honey fungus.
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