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Characteristics
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Ericaceae--The Heath Family
- Origin
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Native NC
- Plant Description
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Deciduous shrub - tree
- Coastal Ecology
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Vaccinium corymbosum is the Highbush blueberry, a Facultative Wetland species. Highbush blueberry is a medium to large deciduous shrub which grows in bogs, pocosins and pine barrens. This photograph shows it in fall color, which can be a spectacular dark red. During the summer the color of the new twigs are green, the leaves are green, simple, alternate and with entire margins, and the lateral buds have scales with short-pointed tips. Highbush blueberry flowers from March to May, depending on location and exposure, bearing small, white urn-shaped flowers with fused petals. The fruits are juicy "blueberries" which are eaten by wildlife and humans.
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