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Vaccinium
Vaccinium berries, from top right: Cranberries, linganberries, blueberries, red huckleberries
Vaccinium berries, from top right:
Cranberries, linganberries, blueberries, red huckleberries
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Vaccinium
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Type species
V. uliginosum[1]
Species

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Vaccinium is a genus of shrubs in the plant Family Ericaceae including the cranberry, blueberry, bilberry or whortleberry, cowberry or lingonberry, and huckleberry. Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group Magnoliopsida is the Botanical name for a class of Flowering plants By definition the class will include the family Magnoliaceae, but its The Ericales are a large and diverse order of Dicotyledons including for example Tea, Persimmon, Blueberry, Brazil nut, and The Plant family Ericaceae (also called the heath family or ericaceous plants) are mostly lime -hating ( Calcifuge) Carl Linnaeus (Latinized as Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as, May 23 new style (13 May old style 1707 who laid the foundations for In biology a type is that which fixes a name to a Taxon. Depending on the nomenclature code which is applied to the organism in question a type may be a specimen Vaccinium uliginosum ( Bog Bilberry or Northern Bilberry) is a Flowering plant in the Genus Vaccinium. A genus (plural genera from Γένος Latin genus "descent family type gender" is a low-level Taxonomic A shrub or Bush is a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category of Woody plant, distinguished from a Tree The Plant family Ericaceae (also called the heath family or ericaceous plants) are mostly lime -hating ( Calcifuge) Cranberries are a group of Evergreen dwarf Shrubs or trailing vines in the genus Vaccinium subgenus Oxycoccos Blueberries are Flowering plants in the genus Vaccinium, sect Bilberry is a name given to several species of low-growing Shrubs in the Genus Vaccinium (family Ericaceae) that bears fruits The Vaccinium vitis-idaea &ndash often called lingonberry also called cowberry, foxberry, mountain cranberry, red whortleberry The genus contains about 450 species, which are found mostly in the cooler areas of the Northern Hemisphere, although there are tropical species from as widely separated areas as Madagascar and Hawai'i. Northern Hemisphere is the half of a Planet that is North of the Equator —the word hemisphere literally means 'half ball' The plants prefer heath landscapes, as well as open forests. Heaths are Shrubland habitats characterised by open low growing woody Vegetation, found on mainly infertile Acidic soils The name Vaccinium was used for a type of berry (probably the bilberry V. Bilberry is a name given to several species of low-growing Shrubs in the Genus Vaccinium (family Ericaceae) that bears fruits myrtillus) in classical Latin, but its ultimate derivation is obscure; it has nothing to do with vaccinum "of or pertaining to cows", but may be a corruption of Latin bacca, berry (OED). Cattle, colloquially referred to as cows, are domesticated Ungulates a member of the Subfamily Bovinae of the family The word berry has two meanings one based on a botanical definition the other on common identification The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED) published by the Oxford University Press (OUP is a comprehensive Dictionary of the English

The fruit develops from an inferior ovary, and is a false berry. The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context and the term is not synonymous in Food preparation and Biology. An epigynous berry or false berry is an Accessory fruit found in certain Plant species with an inferior ovary, distinguishing it from

Vaccinium species are used as food plants by the larvae of a number of Lepidoptera (butterfly and moth) species - see list of Lepidoptera that feed on Vaccinium. A larva ( Latin; plural larvae) is a juvenile form of Animal with indirect development, undergoing Metamorphosis (for example Lepidoptera is an order of Insect that includes Moths and butterflies. A butterfly is an Insect of the order Lepidoptera. Like all Lepidoptera butterflies are notable for their unusual life cycle with a A moth is an Insect closely related to the Butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Vaccinium Species are used as food plants by the Larvae of a number of Lepidoptera species including Monophagous

The taxonomy is complex, and still under investigation. A number of the Asian species are more closely related to Agapetes than to other Vaccinium species. [2][3] A second group includes most of Orthaea and Notopora, at least some of Gaylussacia (huckleberry), and a number of species from Vaccinium, such as Vaccinium crassifolium. Gaylussacia is a genus of about fifty species of Flowering plants in the family Ericaceae, native to the Americas, where they occur in eastern Creeping blueberry ( Vaccinium crassifolium) is a species of Vaccinium native to the southeastern United States. [2] Other parts of Vaccinium form other groups, sometimes together with species of other genera. [2]

A classification which predates molecular phylogeny divides Vaccinium into subgenera, and several sections:

Subgenus Oxycoccus
The cranberries, with slender, trailing, wiry non-woody shoots and strongly reflexed flower petals. Cranberries are a group of Evergreen dwarf Shrubs or trailing vines in the genus Vaccinium subgenus Oxycoccos Some botanists treat Oxycoccus as a distinct genus.
Subgenus Vaccinium
All the other species, with thicker, upright woody shoots and bell-shaped flowers. Southern Mountain Cranberry ( Vaccinium erythrocarpum &mdash also commonly known as bearberry and arando) is a type of Cranberry native

References

  1. ^ Vaccinium Linnaeus (HTML). The Vaccinium vitis-idaea &ndash often called lingonberry also called cowberry, foxberry, mountain cranberry, red whortleberry Index Nominum Genericorum. International Association for Plant Taxonomy (2003-02-05). Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1576 - Henry of Navarre converts to Roman Catholicism in order to ensure his right to the throne of France. Retrieved on 2008-05-09. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1457 BC - Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of
  2. ^ a b c Kathleen A. Kron, E. Ann Powell and J. L. Luteyn (2002). "Phylogenetic relationships within the blueberry tribe (Vaccinieae, Ericaceae) based on sequence data from MATK and nuclear ribosomal ITS regions, with comments on the placement of Satyria". American Journal of Botany 89: 327–336.  
  3. ^ Vaccinium. Flora of China.

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