Vaccinium oxycoccus
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Read about Vaccinium oxycoccus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Vaccinium oxycoccus, Linn. (Oxycoccus Oxycoccus, McM.). Small Cranberry. Cranberry of the Old World. Slender creeping plants with short filiform sts., 4-10 in. long: lvs. ovate, acute, 1/4 in. long with strongly revolute margins, coriaceous, evergreen, dark green and glossy above, white-glaucous beneath, glabrous: pedicels 1-4, terminal: filaments one-half length of anthers: berry red, 1/4 – 1/3 in. diam. Sphagnum swamps in subarctic and alpine regions of Old and New Worlds.— "Though smaller, its fr. is by many considered superior to that of the next."
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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