Vaccinium microcarpum
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Synonyms
- Vaccinium oxycoccos var. microcarpum (Turcz. ex Rupr.) Asch. & Graebn.
- Oxycoccus microcarpus Turcz. ex Rupr.
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 macrocarpon
- Vaccinium membranaceum
- Vaccinium moupinense
- Vaccinium myrsinites
- Vaccinium myrtillus
- Vaccinium nummularia
- Vaccinium oldhamii
- Vaccinium ovalifolium
- Vaccinium ovatum
- Vaccinium oxycoccos
- Vaccinium padifolium
- Vaccinium parvifolium
- Vaccinium praestans
- Vaccinium stamineum
- Vaccinium uliginosum
- Vaccinium urceolatum
- Vaccinium vacillans
- Vaccinium virgatum
- Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Editorial Note
The ’cranberries’ in Vaccinium sect. Oxycoccus (Hill) Koch were treated by Bean under the genus Oxycoccos, distinguished by ‘their long, slender, wiry, creeping stems, clothed with alternate leaves,’ and by the corolla, ‘the four parts of which are so deeply divided that they become practically separate petals.’ ‘The cranberries like a moist or semi-boggy, peaty soil, and can be increased by seed or by layers. They have little garden value, although a broad patch of either kind forming a dense mass of interlacing stems is interesting and unusual. The berries are used for making tarts and in confections of various kinds.’
Allied to Vaccinium oxycoccos, but with smaller, triangular-ovate leaves 1⁄8 to 3⁄16 in. long, glabrous flower-stalks and the fruits oblong or inversely pear-shaped. The total distribution of this species is not known for certain; it appears to be mainly confined to Siberia and N. Europe (including Scotland), but has been reported from a few localities in the mountains of Central Europe.