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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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Your sponsorship will enable us to survey and develop a program for the conservation of native populations of this species. Blueberries are native plants which provide quite high value pollinator support, especially for Bumblebees early in the season. The preservation of populations of this genus is critical to the conservation of Biodiversity and the reversal of the process of extinction.
