WILD BLUEBERRY

Vaccinium angustifolium

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CLASSIFICATION—

Flowering Shrub

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Low shrub spreading across heath and low ground
Fruit small and dark, near the soil
Leaves small and dark along thin woody stems
Stems wiry and outward growing

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SEASON—

Flowering late spring
Fruit ripening late summer
Dried for winter keeping

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ARCHIVE—

Domestic dye notes, 19th century

“The juice of the blueberry yields a deep purple stain, fixed best upon wool.
Iron darkens the color.”

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CORRESPONDENCES—

Late summer
Low heath
Stored fruit

 

NAMES—

Wild blueberry
Blueberry

 

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