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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Vaccinium arboreum''
| image = Vaccinium arboreum USDA.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = Leaves and immature fruit
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Ericales]]
| familia = [[Ericaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Vaccinium]]''
| species = '''''V. arboreum'''''
| binomial = ''Vaccinium arboreum''
| binomial_authority = [[Humphry Marshall|Marshall]]
}}
'''''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]].
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.
==References==
*[http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?40984 Germplasm Resources Information Network: ''Vaccinium arboreum'']
*[http://www.missouriplants.com/Whitealt/Vaccineum_arboreum_page.html Missouriplants: ''Vaccinium arboreum'']
*[http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=265 Virginia Tech Dendrology: ''Vaccinium arboreum'']
[[Category:Ericaceae]]
[[Category:Fruit]]
{{fruit-stub}}
[[es:Vaccinium arboreum]]
[[simple:Vaccinium arboreum]]
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Vaccinium arboreum''
| image = Vaccinium arboreum USDA.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = Leaves and immature fruit
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Ericales]]
| familia = [[Ericaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Vaccinium]]''
| species = '''''V. arboreum'''''
| binomial = ''Vaccinium arboreum''
| binomial_authority = [[Humphry Marshall|Marshall]]
}}
'''''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]].
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.
==References==
*[http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?40984 Germplasm Resources Information Network: ''Vaccinium arboreum'']
*[http://www.missouriplants.com/Whitealt/Vaccineum_arboreum_page.html Missouriplants: ''Vaccinium arboreum'']
*[http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=265 Virginia Tech Dendrology: ''Vaccinium arboreum'']
[[Category:Ericaceae]]
[[Category:Fruit]]
{{fruit-stub}}
[[es:Vaccinium arboreum]]
[[simple:Vaccinium arboreum]]