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| name = ''Vaccinium arboreum''
 
| name = ''Vaccinium arboreum''
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| common_names = Sparkleberry, Farkleberry
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| growth_habit = shrub (sm, tree)
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| high = 3-5 m (rarely 9 m)
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| origin = SE USA
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| lifespan = perennial
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| color = IndianRed
 
| image = Vaccinium arboreum USDA.jpg
 
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| image_caption = Leaves and immature fruit
 
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| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
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| divisio = Magnoliophyta
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| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
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| classis = Magnoliopsida
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| ordo = [[Ericales]]
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| ordo = Ericales
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| familia = [[Ericaceae]]
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| familia = Ericaceae
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| genus = ''[[Vaccinium]]''
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| genus = Vaccinium
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| species = '''''V. arboreum'''''
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| species = arboreum
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| binomial = ''Vaccinium arboreum''
 
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| binomial_authority = [[Humphry Marshall|Marshall]]
 
 
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'''''Vaccinium arboreum''''' ('''Sparkleberry''' or '''Farkleberry''') is a species of ''[[Vaccinium]]'' native to the southeastern [[United States]], from southern [[Virginia]] west to southeastern [[Missouri]], and south to [[Florida]] and eastern [[Texas]].
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Farkleberry. Sparkle-Berry. Spreading shrub or small tree, 6-25 ft. high, with glabrous or somewhat pubescent branchlets: Ivs. 1-2 in. long, evergreen in the S., somewhat coriaceous, smooth and shining above, paler and sometimes pubescent beneath, obovate to oval, acute or obtuse, entire or obscurely denticulate: fls. profuse, axillary, and leafy-racemose, pendulous, articulated with the slender pedicel; corolla open-campanulate, 5-lobed, white; stamens included: berry small, globose, black, rather astringent, inedible. Sandy soil along river banks, Fla. and Texas to N. C. and Ill. L.B.C. 19:1885. B.M. 1607 (as V. diffusum). B.B. 2:580.—"It forms an irregular shrub too diffuse and straggling to be of use except in masses, for which purpose it is useful at the South."}}
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:''More information about this species can be found on the [[Vaccinium|genus page]].''
  
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It is a [[shrub]] (rarely a small [[tree]]) growing to 3-5 m (rarely 9 m) tall. The [[leaf|leaves]] are [[evergreen]] in the south of the range, but [[deciduous]] further north where winters are colder; they are oval-elliptic with an acute apex, 3-7 cm long and 2-4 cm broad, with a smooth or very finely toothed margin. The [[flower]]s are white, bell-shaped, 3-4 mm diameter, with a five-lobed corolla, produced in [[raceme]]s up to 5 cm long. The [[fruit]] is a round dry berry about 6 mm diameter, green at first, black when ripe, edible but bitter and tough.
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==References==
 
==References==
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*[http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?40984 Germplasm Resources Information Network: ''Vaccinium arboreum'']
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<!--- xxxxx  *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381  -->
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*[http://www.missouriplants.com/Whitealt/Vaccineum_arboreum_page.html Missouriplants: ''Vaccinium arboreum'']
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<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
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*[http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=265 Virginia Tech Dendrology: ''Vaccinium arboreum'']
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<!--- xxxxx  *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608  -->
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Revision as of 13:58, 12 March 2009


Leaves and immature fruit


Plant Characteristics
Lifespan: ⌛ perennial
Origin: ✈ SE USA
Cultivation
Scientific Names

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Read about Vaccinium arboreum in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Farkleberry. Sparkle-Berry. Spreading shrub or small tree, 6-25 ft. high, with glabrous or somewhat pubescent branchlets: Ivs. 1-2 in. long, evergreen in the S., somewhat coriaceous, smooth and shining above, paler and sometimes pubescent beneath, obovate to oval, acute or obtuse, entire or obscurely denticulate: fls. profuse, axillary, and leafy-racemose, pendulous, articulated with the slender pedicel; corolla open-campanulate, 5-lobed, white; stamens included: berry small, globose, black, rather astringent, inedible. Sandy soil along river banks, Fla. and Texas to N. C. and Ill. L.B.C. 19:1885. B.M. 1607 (as V. diffusum). B.B. 2:580.—"It forms an irregular shrub too diffuse and straggling to be of use except in masses, for which purpose it is useful at the South."

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