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Fam.: Ericaceae / Heather Fam.  

Hybrid-Name:  Vaccinium x atlanticum  E.P.BICKNELL

Genus:  Vaccinium  L.
 

Authors:
   AITON:  William T. Aiton (1731 - 1793), British botanist
   L.:  Carl von Linné (Linnaeus, 1707 - 1777), Swedish naturalist who introduced the binary naming system for plants and animals
   E.P.BICKNELL:  Eugene Pintard Bicknell (1859 - 1925), botanist and ornithologist in the USA
 

Etymology:
   Vaccinium:   Roman plant name, from bacca = berry
   angustifolium:   narrow-leaved
   corymbosum:   corymbose
   atlanticum:   from Atlas mountains (North Africa)
 

The Half-Highbush Blueberry, of which the fruits can be bought in super markets, has not much to do with the European Bilberry Vaccinium myrtillus, but has been breeded from American Bluebeery Species. Mainly the bush-like Huckleberry (Northern Highbush Blueberry) Vaccinium corymbosum and the narrow-leaved Lowbush Blueberry Vaccinium angustifolium have been crossed, depending on the sort other American species as e.g. the Evergreen Blueberry Vaccinium darrowii can be crossbreeded, too. Opposite to the European Bilberry Vaccinium myrtillus the Half-Highbush Blueberry has bigger fruits with bright, less aromatical pulp. In Lower Saxonia (Niedersachsen) the Half-Highbush Blueberry run wild from plantings into many adjacent peat bogs.

 

Vaccinium angustifolium x corymbosum / Half-Highbush Blueberry, D Botan. Gar.  Universit.  Mainz 4.8.2007
Fig. 1:  Vaccinium angustifolium x corymbosum / Half-Highbush Blueberry
D Botan. Gar. Universit. Mainz 4.8.2007
Vaccinium angustifolium x corymbosum / Half-Highbush Blueberry, D Botan. Gar.  Universit.  Mainz 4.8.2007
Fig. 2:  Vaccinium angustifolium x corymbosum / Half-Highbush Blueberry
D Botan. Gar. Universit. Mainz 4.8.2007

 


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