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Creeping Blueberry
(Vaccinium crassifolium )
This plant is a native of southern United States, from North Carolina down to Georgia.
The nursery tags and the nursery professionals say it is safe to grow in Connecticut...we will see, as my books clearly state otherwise.
(We saw all right!...dead as a door nail they are.. all the plants died the first winter. Perhaps in a protected site they would live but I tend to believe Wyman's now.)
It is a lovely groundcover for acid soil and I am hoping a cold tolerant variety has been bred and this is it. (sigh...)
Isn't this a great photo! I haven't figured out why the camera does a great job sometimes but gives me a fight other times. Anyway...look at the end of that little green berry. Compare it to the Highbush Blueberries.
Study Pointers:
- Keep checking for flowers in the spring. When you spot some buds compare this Lowbush specie to the Highbush one. Are they going to bloom at the same time? Check the flowers. Are they the same?
- After doing all that, what do you think? Do you think you could have guessed these two plants were related?
- Make a quick list of things they have in common and another of how they differ.
- Compare the berries. Make comparisons. Think about it.
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