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Vaccinium hagerupii (small cranberry)

Synonyms: Oxycoccus hagerupii (heterotypic); Oxycoccus palustris hagerupii (homotypic); Oxycoccus palustris major; Oxycoccus palustris var. major

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Lifespan [3]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Bees, Bats
Structure [2]  Shrub
Usage [2]  The juice of the fruit is used to clean silver; A red dye is obtained from the fruit; Plants can be grown as a ground cover when planted about 1 metre apart each way; Plants rapidly form a dense carpet when they are thriving;
Height [2]  3.937 inches (0.1 m)
Width [2]  39 inches (1 m)
Light Preference [4]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [4]  Very Acid
Soil Fertility [4]  Infertile
Soil Moisture [4]  Wet
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Ecosystems

Predators

Providers

Pollinated by 
Boloria aquilonaris (Cranberry Fritillary)[7]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Exobasidium rostrupii[7]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish Plants: Status, Size, Life History, Geography and Habitats, M. O. Hill, C. D. Preston & D. B. Roy, Biological Records Centre, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2004)
♦ 4ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 6HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 7Ecology of Commanster
♦ 8Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 9Tamias ruficaudus, Troy L. Best, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 452, pp. 1-7 (1993)
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0