Vaccinium ovalifolium
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Vaccinium ovalifolium is a plant from the genus of blueberries ( Vaccinium ) in the family of the Ericaceae (Ericaceae). They are found in the north and west of North America and in northeast Asia .
description
Vaccinium ovalifolium grows as a group-forming shrub and reaches heights of 30 to 400 centimeters. Large groups are rarely formed. The stem-round to sometimes angular branches have smooth or hairy and yellowish-green to golden-brown colored bark .
The elliptical to oval, or rarely obovate leaves are 25 to 39 millimeters long and 16 to 20 millimeters wide. The leaf margin is smooth or indistinctly serrated. While the upper side of the leaf is colored light green, the underside of the leaf is darker green.
During the flowering period in spring to late summer, spherical flowers are formed. The light green or frosted sepals are fused and bare at their base. be colored. The rose-colored, greenish-white or bronze-pink-colored petals are almost completely fused with spherical to jug-shaped and have a length of 5 to 7 millimeters and a diameter of 4 to 5 millimeters. The stamens are glabrous or hairy at their base.
It forms blue to matt purple-black or black, sometimes frosted berries with a diameter of 8 to 10 millimeters. The seeds are about 1 mm in size.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 24, 48.
Occurrence
The natural range of Vaccinium ovalifolium includes the west and north of North America as well as the northeast of Asia. In North America, it stretches from Alaska and Yukon in the north to Oregon , Idaho , South Dakota, and Michigan in the south. The eastern limit of distribution runs through Newfoundland and Labrador as well as Québec . In Asia, the species occurs on Kamchatka , the Kuril Islands , in the Primorye region and on Hokkaidō , Honshū and Sakhalin .
The species is found in coniferous forests and in the adjacent transition zones as well as on roadsides and peaty slopes at altitudes of 0 to 2100 meters.
Systematics
Vaccinium ovalifolium was published in 1819 by James Edward Smith in The Cyclopaedia; or, universial dictionary of arts, ... , 36 (2): Vaccinium no. 2 first described . A synonym for Vaccinium ovalifolium Sm. Is Vaccinium alaskaense Howell . Vaccinium ovalifolium belongs to the section Myrtillus from the subgenus Vaccinium in the genus Vaccinium .
There are three varieties :
- Vaccinium ovalifolium var. Alpinum (Tatew.) T.Yamaz. occurs on the Japanese island of Hokkaidō .
- Vaccinium ovalifolium Sm. Var. Ovalifolium occurs in North America as well as in most of the Asian range.
- Vaccinium ovalifolium var. Sachalinense T.Yamaz. occurs on the islands of Sakhalin and Hokkaidō.
use
The berries are eaten raw or cooked and have a sweet taste. To make them more durable, they are also dried and then taste like raisins . That is why they are also grown. The medical effects were examined.
swell
- Sam P. Vander Kloet: Vaccinium ovalifolium. In: Flora of North America. www.eFloras.org, accessed December 8, 2010 . Volume 8, 2009, p. 515.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Vaccinium ovalifolium. In: Flora of North America. www.eFloras.org, accessed December 8, 2010 .
- ↑ a b c Vaccinium ovalifolium. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network. www.ars-grin.gov, accessed December 8, 2010 (English).
- ^ Vaccinium ovalifolium at Plants for A Future .
