bilberry

Also known as European blueberry

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color: blue
natural product of taxon: Vaccinium myrtillus
described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition

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Species
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Bilberry (), also known as European blueberry, is a Eurasian low-growing shrub in the genus Vaccinium of the flowering plant family Ericaceae native to northern Europe and North America. Vaccinium myrtillus L. is the species most commonly called bilberry, but other closely related Vaccinium species may also have this name.

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