Lingonberry

By Admin, on September 29th, 2011

Lingonberry fruit Author Mr. Philip Gabrielsen on Wikimedia Commons

Binomial name Vaccinium vitis-idaea

Names

Vaccinium vitis-idaea is called cowberry in the United States, United Kingdom and Ireland and lingonberry in North America. The name cowberry is derived from the scientific name Vaccinium, which comes from vaccinus, an adjective from Latin vacca “cow”.

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Dewberry

By Admin, on September 15th, 2011

Dewberry Photo by George Chernilevsky

The dewberries are a group of species in the genus Rubus, section Rubus, closely related to the blackberries. They are small trailing (rather than upright or high-arching) brambles with berries reminiscent of the raspberry, but are usually purple to black instead of red.

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