75+ Vaccinium Ovatum

Beautiful foliage and edible fruit make this a must in most gardens. Ovatum refers to its oval shaped leaves.

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ensemble Vaccinium ovatum!!!

Part shade shade. Leaves small alternate oval to lanceolate 4 cm long toothed leathery glossy dark green generally closely spaced along reddish stems. An upright evergreen broad leaved shrub that typically grows 2 3 tall in the sun but up to 10 in height. Vaccinium ovatum can grow in either sun or shade and is tolerant of salt spray.

Vaccinium ovatum is a true huckleberry plant growing well in shade or sun and thriving in acidic soils. The genus vaccinium includes blueberries huckleberries cranberries lingonberries whortleberries bilberries and cowberries. Fruit at first is red turning blue black in late summer edible. Used in the florist industry pale pink urn shaped flowers borne on short racemes in spring.

The fruit is so small that it takes a good sized portion to make jam jelly or syrup but it is worth the effort for their sweet fresh flavor. Description evergreen huckleberry is a prized addition to any northwest native landscape with its little urn shaped flowers perennial leaves and glossy blackish purple berries. As a natural or trimmed hedge hedgerow or in a thicket as wildlife habitat it makes a choice plant for the garden. Vaccinium ovatum fire ecology or adaptations.

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