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Vaccinium oldhamii
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Vaccinium oldhamii' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Synonyms
- V. ciliatum sens. G. Don, not Thunb.
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 microcarpum
- Vaccinium moupinense
- Vaccinium myrsinites
- Vaccinium myrtillus
- Vaccinium nummularia
- 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
A deciduous shrub up to 12 ft high in Japan, of bushy habit; young shoots glandular-downy. Leaves ovate, oval or obovate, pointed, tapered or sometimes rounded at the base; edged with fine, bristle-like teeth, 1 to 3 in. long, 1⁄2 to 11⁄2 in. wide, green on both surfaces, sprinkled with bristles above, bristly on the midrib and veins beneath; stalk 1⁄8 in. or less long. Racemes 11⁄2 to 21⁄2 in. long, carrying eight to twenty nodding flowers; flower-stalks glandular-downy with leaf-like bracts at the base. Corolla bell-shaped, 1⁄6 in. long, reddish; stamens downy, somewhat shorter than the corolla; calyx-lobes triangular. Blooms in June. Fruits globose, 1⁄3 in. wide, black, edible.
Native of Japan and Korea; described from a specimen collected by Richard Oldham near Nagasaki in Japan in 1863, but found earlier in Korea by Charles Wilford; introduced about 1892. Although quite hardy, it is not a particularly attractive species, but the leaves sometimes turn a good red before falling.