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Vaccinium myrtillus
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Vaccinium myrtillus or European blueberry is a holarctic species of shrub with edible fruit of blue color, known by the common names bilberry, blaeberry, wimberry, and whortleberry.[3] It is more precisely called common bilberry or blue whortleberry to distinguish it from other Vaccinium relatives.
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Vaccinium myrtillus | |
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By Amédée Masclef, published in Atlas des plantes de France, 1891 | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Ericales |
Family: | Ericaceae |
Genus: | Vaccinium |
Section: | Vaccinium sect. Myrtillus |
Species: | V. myrtillus |
Binomial name | |
Vaccinium myrtillus L. 1753 | |
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