Vaccinium membranaceum
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Vaccinium membranaceum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Synonyms
- V. myrtilloides Hook., not Michx.
Other taxa in genus
- Vaccinium angustifolium
- Vaccinium arboreum
- Vaccinium arctostaphylos
- Vaccinium bracteatum
- Vaccinium caespitosum
- Vaccinium canadense
- Vaccinium corymbosum
- Vaccinium crassifolium
- Vaccinium cylindraceum
- Vaccinium delavayi
- Vaccinium duclouxii
- Vaccinium dunalianum
- Vaccinium erythrocarpum
- Vaccinium floribundum
- Vaccinium fragile
- Vaccinium glauco-album
- Vaccinium hirsutum
- Vaccinium × intermedium
- Vaccinium japonicum
- Vaccinium macrocarpum
- Vaccinium moupinense
- Vaccinium myrsinites
- Vaccinium myrtillus
- Vaccinium nummularia
- Vaccinium oldhamii
- Vaccinium ovalifolium
- Vaccinium ovatum
- Vaccinium oxycoccus
- Vaccinium padifolium
- Vaccinium parvifolium
- Vaccinium praestans
- Vaccinium stamineum
- Vaccinium uliginosum
- Vaccinium urceolatum
- Vaccinium vacillans
- Vaccinium virgatum
- Vaccinium vitis-idaea
A deciduous shrub from 1 to 5 ft high, erect-growing; branchlets angular, glabrous. Leaves ovate to oblong, pointed, rounded or tapered at the base, minutely toothed, 3⁄4 to 21⁄2 in. long, 1⁄3 to 1 in. wide, bright green and glabrous on both surfaces; stalk 1⁄16 in. or less long. Flowers solitary in the leaf-axils on stalks 1⁄4 to 1⁄3 in. long. Corolla between globose and urn-shaped, 1⁄4 in. across, greenish or pinkish white; calyx entire. Berries 1⁄4 to 1⁄3 in. in diameter, purplish black, sweet, but rather acid. Bot. Mag., t. 3447.
Native of N. America from the region of the Great Lakes westward to British Columbia, south to northern California; discovered by Douglas about 1828. It belongs to the same group as V. myrtillus and V. uliginosum. Of little garden value.