Huckleberry
By Ann MacDonald
Huckleberry (Gaylussacia) - The kinds in cultivation in Britain are N. American, allied to Vaccinium. Some bear edible fruit in America. Syn. Vaccinium.
Huckleberry
Related Category: Plants
any plant of the genus Gaylussacia, shrubs of the family Ericaceae ( family), native to North and South America. The box huckleberry (G. brachycera) of E North America is evergreen and is often cultivated.
Dwarf Huckleberry
Gaylussacia dumosa
Dwarf huckleberry is threatened in Connecticut.
"Huckleberrying" is a tradition of many truly Northwest families, & as a youngster I would go huckleberrying with my Yakama Indian great-grampa on family outings.
Evergreen Huckleberry, California Huckleberry
Scientific Name: Vaccinium ovatum Pursh.
Synonym: Vitis-idaea ovata, Vaccinium lanceolatum, Metagonia ovata
Family: Ericaceae ...
vak-SIN-ee-um Common Name: Blueberry, Cranberry, Huckleberry
The genus Vacinnium contains evergreen to deciduous shrubs and trees with ornamental foliage, flowers, and fruit. Leaves are leathery and alternate.
Ledum glandulosum
(Rusty Menziesia)
[Nutt.] Subclass: Dilleniidae
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Family Description: Heath Key Characteristics: Also known as Smith Fool’s Huckleberry, Mock Azalea, Rusty-leaf or Rusty Menziesia.
Huckleberry shrubs can be deciduous or evergreen, and are related closely to blueberries, cranberries, lingonberries, whortleberries, farkleberries and bilberries. There are about 450 species of Vaccinium around the world.
HUCKLEBERRY
Huckleberries are native to higher elevation forests and thrive in an acid soil. The plant is a close relative of the blueberry with fruit color ranging from midnight blue/black to maroon.
huckleberry Ericaceae Gaylussacia spp. Kunth symbol: GAYLU
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Huckleberry Oak KWER-kus vak-sin-i-FO-li-a
Evergreen shrub, prostrate or low growing, spreading, dense, to about 1 ft (30 cm) tall and 4 ft (120 cm) wide.
HUCKLEBERRY VARIATIONS
OLDER FRUIT VARIETIES FOR THE HOME GARDENER
EFFECT OF COLD TEMPERATURES ON FLOWER BUDS OF FRUIT ...
The 'Huckleberry' of North America, so widely appreciated there, is our Bilberry - the name being an obvious corruption of 'Whortleberry.'
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RECIPE ...
The Box Huckleberry, a Rare Shrub
This evergreen shrub, which usually grows by cloning itself, can cover acres of land. Read more about this vegetation that's akin to the blueberry.
Flowering Plants that Bloom During September ...
The blue huckleberry is a small shrub of irregular habit that can be coaxed into an attractive shape with selective pruning.
Usage
Few gardeners have discovered the huckleberries, and that is too bad.
Evergreen Huckleberry - Vaccinium ovatum
Trailing Red Huckleberry - Vaccinium parvifolium
Houseleek - Sempervivum tectorum
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Field Office Guide to Plant Species
Dwarf Huckleberry
Gaylussacia dumosa (Andr.) Torr. & Gray ...
Box Huckleberry (Gaylussacia brachycera)
Box Leaved Holly (Ilex crenata)
Boxelder (Acer negundo)
Boxleaf Euonymus (Euonymus japonica 'Microphylla')
Boxwood (Buxus microphylla 'Wintergreen')
Boxwood (Buxus microphylla 'Green Mountain') ...
Vaccinium membranaceum. Thinleaf Huckleberry. Lava Lake Trail. Near Bozeman, Montana.
Vaccinium parviflorum. Red Huckleberry.
Vaccinium parviflorum. Red Huckleberry. Grows along the Pacific Coast from California to Alaska.
Bilberry/Huckleberry (Vaccinium spp.)
Black cohosh (Cimicifuga racemosa)
Bladderwrack (Fucus versiculosus)
Blessed thistle (Cnicus benedictus)
Blue cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides)
Boneset (Eupatorium perforatum)
Burdock (Arctium lappa) ...
Vaccinium ovatum
EVERGREEN HUCKLEBERRY
Native Plants Gallery
Viburnums ...
Distant Affinity: Tomato (Lycopersicon lycopsersicum), Wonderberry (Solanum X burbankii), Naranjilla (S. quitoense), Garden Huckleberry (S. scabrum) and others.
Vaccinium, from the Latin
myrtilloides, from the Greek, murtos, "myrtle"; "like a little myrtle"
Velvet Leaf Blueberry, from
Other common names include: Velvet Leaf Huckleberry ...
It is usually found in mixtures with western and mountain hemlock, yellow- cedar, and western redcedar. It is very tolerant of shade, and small trees often grow abundantly with black huckleberry and mountain-heathers.
chrysolepis as the largest American oak. Huckleberry oak (Q. vacciniifolia), which often hybridizes with Q. chrysolepis, is a main component of the chaparral at Stanford Sierra Camp on Fallen Leaf Lake; it grows only about 3 feet tall.
 See also: Green, Evergreen, Fruits, Blueberry, May
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