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Vaccinium myrtillus - Unripe fruits - Click to enlarge!

Unripe fruits; Kreislehrgarten Oberallgäu, Sulzberg-Ried, Bavaria, Germany; 8/2015 © Sonja Germer

Vaccinium myrtillus - Flower - Click to enlarge!

Flower; Hähnichen, Oberlausitz, Sachsen, Germany; 4/2012 © Julia Roeser

Vaccinium myrtillus - Flowers - Click to enlarge!

Flowers; Hähnichen, Oberlausitz, Sachsen, Germany; 4/2012 © Julia Roeser

Vaccinium myrtillus - Flowers - Click to enlarge!

Flowers; Canow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany; 4/2015 © Sonja Germer

Vaccinium myrtillus - Ripe fruit - Click to enlarge!

Ripe fruit; Kreislehrgarten Oberallgäu, Sulzberg-Ried, Bavaria, Germany; 8/2015 © Sonja Germer

Vaccinium myrtillus - Foliage - Click to enlarge!

Foliage; Kreislehrgarten Oberallgäu, Sulzberg-Ried, Bavaria, Germany; 8/2015 © Sonja Germer

Vaccinium myrtillus - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Hähnichen, Oberlausitz, Sachsen, Germany; 4/2012 © Julia Roeser

Vaccinium myrtillus - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Canow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany; 4/2015 © Sonja Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 2322
Date of entry: 29.10.2014
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: European blueberry

German: Heidelbeere

Portuguese: Mirtilo

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Ericales (57)

        Family: Ericaceae (28)(family description)

          Genus: Vaccinium (5)

            Epithet: myrtillus L. (1)

Characteristics

Climate: temperate

Habit: shrub

Flower colour: red, beige

External links

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