Vaccinium arboreum

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Leaves and immature fruit


Plant Characteristics
Habit   shrub

Height: 3 m"m" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 3. to 9 m"m" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 9.
Lifespan: perennial
Origin: SE USA
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Read about Vaccinium arboreum in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Vaccinium arboreum, Marsh. Farkleberry. Sparkle-Berry. Spreading shrub or small tree, 6-25 ft. high, with glabrous or somewhat pubescent branchlets: lvs. 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.—"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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