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    • Vaccinium
      • Vaccinium dictionary
      • V. corymbosum
      • V. pallidum
      • V. stamineum
      • V. fuscatum
      • V. formosum
      • V. caesariense
      • V. angustifolium
      • V. myrtilloides
    • Butterflies and Habitat
    • Grasses
      • Agrostis
      • Andropogon
      • Aristida
      • Calamagrostis
      • Chasmanthium
      • Cinna
      • Danthonia spicata
      • Dichanthelium
      • Elymus
      • Eragrostis
      • Muhlenbergia
      • Panicum
      • Poa
      • Schizachyrium scoparium
      • Sorghastrum nutans
      • Tridens
    • Pollinator Plants
      • Asclepias
      • Asters
      • Cirsium(Native Thistles)
      • Eupatorium
      • Eutrochium
      • Helenium flexuosum
      • Heliopsis
      • Liatris
      • Monarda
      • Pycnanthemum(Mt.Mints)
      • Rosa carolina
      • Smallanthus uvedalia
      • Solidago (Goldenrods)
      • Teucrium canadense
      • Verbesina

  • Home
  • Vaccinium
    • Vaccinium dictionary
    • V. corymbosum
    • V. pallidum
    • V. stamineum
    • V. fuscatum
    • V. formosum
    • V. caesariense
    • V. angustifolium
    • V. myrtilloides
  • Butterflies and Habitat
  • Grasses
    • Agrostis
    • Andropogon
    • Aristida
    • Calamagrostis
    • Chasmanthium
    • Cinna
    • Danthonia spicata
    • Dichanthelium
    • Elymus
    • Eragrostis
    • Muhlenbergia
    • Panicum
    • Poa
    • Schizachyrium scoparium
    • Sorghastrum nutans
    • Tridens
  • Pollinator Plants
    • Asclepias
    • Asters
    • Cirsium(Native Thistles)
    • Eupatorium
    • Eutrochium
    • Helenium flexuosum
    • Heliopsis
    • Liatris
    • Monarda
    • Pycnanthemum(Mt.Mints)
    • Rosa carolina
    • Smallanthus uvedalia
    • Solidago (Goldenrods)
    • Teucrium canadense
    • Verbesina

V. corymbosum, Highbush Blueberry

Twigs:

Bright green to blue-glaucous; circumferentially shaggy-white to pubescent (puberulent) in two lines with whitish incurved hairs, or even glabrous. Verrucose.

Leafbuds:

Flesh-colored to red, 2-3 mm with a rather stout talon-arista.

Leaves:

Membranaceous to subcoriaceous; medium to pale green to blue-glaucous-upper. Pale green to glaucous- lower. Widest above the middle. Margin entire, subserrate or sharply serrate.

Corolla:

Various; shorter in the South, 5-10 mm (Brown & Brown 8-11 mm). Cylindric, broadly urceolate, subcampanulate or subglobose. May.

Berries:

Glaucous blue to ink-blue; very sweet to mediocre (August).

Height:

1-4 meters. Bark: red-brown to gray, often shredding.

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