erythrocarpum
- Oxycoccoides Vaccinium erythrocarpum - Southern mountain cranberry Subgenus Vaccinium All the other species, with thicker, upright woody shoots and bell-shaped flowers Sect. (wikipedia.org)
- Oxycoccoides Vaccinium erythrocarpum or Oxycoccus erythrocarpus (southern mountain cranberry) native to southeastern North America at high altitudes in the southern Appalachian Mountains, and also in eastern Asia. (wikipedia.org)
Oxycoccus Vaccinium
- Oxycoccus Vaccinium macrocarpon - American cranberry Vaccinium oxycoccos - Common cranberry Vaccinium microcarpum - Small bog cranberry Sect. (wikipedia.org)
- Oxycoccus Vaccinium oxycoccos or Oxycoccus palustris (common cranberry, northern cranberry or cranberry) is widespread throughout the cool temperate Northern Hemisphere, including northern Europe, northern Asia, and northern North America. (wikipedia.org)
genus
- Vaccinium /vækˈsɪniəm/ is a common and widespread genus of shrubs or dwarf shrubs in the heath family. (wikipedia.org)
- Genetic analysis indicates that the genus Vaccinium is not monophyletic. (wikipedia.org)
- Other parts of Vaccinium form other groups, sometimes together with species of other genera.Vaccinium's taxonomy can either be resolved by enlarging the genus to include the entirety of the Vaccinieae tribe, or by breaking the genus up into several different genera. (wikipedia.org)
- Cranberries are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs or trailing vines in the subgenus Oxycoccus of the genus Vaccinium. (wikipedia.org)
- Some plants of the completely unrelated genus Viburnum are sometimes called "highbush cranberries" (e.g. (wikipedia.org)
- Vaccinium macrocarpon (also called large cranberry, American cranberry and bearberry) is a North American species of cranberry of the subgenus Oxycoccus and genus Vaccinium. (wikipedia.org)
- Cranberry , any of several small creeping or trailing plants of the genus Vaccinium (family Ericaceae ) and their edible red fruits. (britannica.com)
- Other fruits of species in the genus Vaccinium are also known as cranberries. (britannica.com)
macrocarpus
- Vaccinium macrocarpon or Oxycoccus macrocarpus (large cranberry, American cranberry, bearberry) native to northern North America across Canada, and eastern United States, south to North Carolina at high altitudes). (wikipedia.org)
microcarpum
- Vaccinium microcarpum or Oxycoccus microcarpus (small cranberry) occurs in northern North America, northern Europe and northern Asia, and differs from V. oxycoccos in the leaves being more triangular, and the flower stems hairless. (wikipedia.org)
Ericaceae
- The larvae feed upon shrubby cranberries in the heath family (Ericaceae). (wikipedia.org)
shrub
- Vaccinium macrocarpon is a shrub, often ascending (trailing along the surface of the ground for some distance but then curving upwards). (wikipedia.org)
subgenus
- A classification predating molecular phylogeny divides Vaccinium into subgenera, and several sections: Subgenus Oxycoccus The cranberries, with slender, trailing, wiry non-woody shoots and strongly reflexed flower petals. (wikipedia.org)
- There are three to four species of cranberry, classified into two sections: Subgenus Oxycoccus, sect. (wikipedia.org)
bogs
- Many of these are grown in artificial ponds called cranberry bogs. (wikipedia.org)
- The only habitat in which bog coppers occur are acid bogs with cranberries. (wikipedia.org)
crassifolium
- A second group includes most of Orthaea and Notopora, at least some of Gaylussacia (huckleberry), and a number of species from Vaccinium, such as Vaccinium crassifolium. (wikipedia.org)
- Batodendron Vaccinium arboreum - Sparkleberry Vaccinium crassifolium - Creeping blueberry Sect. (wikipedia.org)
hirtum
- Hemimyrtillus Vaccinium arctostaphylos Vaccinium cylindraceum Vaccinium hirtum Vaccinium padifolium Vaccinium smallii Sect. (wikipedia.org)
oldhamii
- Ciliata Vaccinium ciliatum Vaccinium oldhamii Sect. (wikipedia.org)
hirsutum
- V. atrococcum Vaccinium hirsutum Vaccinium myrsinites - Evergreen blueberry Vaccinium myrtilloides - Canadian blueberry Vaccinium pallidum Ait. (wikipedia.org)
koreanum
- Koreanum Vaccinium koreanum - Korean blueberry Sect. (wikipedia.org)
bracteatum
- Bracteata Vaccinium acrobracteatum Vaccinium barandanum Vaccinium bracteatum Vaccinium coriaceum Vaccinium cornigerum Vaccinium cruentum Vaccinium hooglandii Vaccinium horizontale Vaccinium laurifolium Vaccinium lucidum Vaccinium myrtoides Vaccinium phillyreoides Vaccinium reticulatovenosum Vaccinium sparsum Vaccinium varingifolium Sect. (wikipedia.org)
deliciosum
- East Polynesian blueberry, Pacific blueberry Vaccinium cespitosum - Dwarf bilberry Vaccinium deliciosum - Cascade bilberry, Cascade blueberry, blueleaf huckleberry Vaccinium dentatum Sm. (wikipedia.org)
huckleberry
- The fruits of many species are eaten by humans and some are of commercial importance, including the cranberry, blueberry, bilberry or whortleberry, lingonberry or cowberry, and huckleberry. (wikipedia.org)
bilberries
- Macropelma) - bilberries and relatives Vaccinium calycinum Sm. (wikipedia.org)
Viburnum
- The fruit of the cranberry tree ( see Viburnum ) is sometimes substituted for true cranberries in Canada and the northern United States. (britannica.com)
bladder and kidney
- It is native to North America and was used by Native Americans to treat bladder and kidney diseases. (dmoztools.net)
- These voyagers observed Native American Indian practices that were established centuries prior for treating bladder and kidney disease , and they incorporated cranberries into the first Thanksgiving feasts - a tradition that continues to this day. (herbazest.com)
botanists
- Some botanists include it within V. oxycoccos. (wikipedia.org)
native
- In Britain, cranberry may refer to the native species Vaccinium oxycoccos, while in North America, cranberry may refer to Vaccinium macrocarpon. (wikipedia.org)
- Vaccinium macrocarpon is native to central and eastern Canada (Ontario to Newfoundland) and the northeastern and north-central United States (Northeast, Great Lakes Region, and Appalachians as far south as North Carolina and Tennessee). (wikipedia.org)
vines
- Therefore, the efficient and powerful DNA fingerprinting made possible by the presented molecular marker panels represents an important and applicable resource in the cranberry industry for assessing the purity of grower and licensed propagator cranberry vines, protecting intellectual property rights, assisting grower's in determining genetic purity of existing beds, and for enabling genetic research and analysis of genetic diversity in cultivated, breeding and wild cranberry germplasm. (usda.gov)
wiry
- The stems of cranberry plants are wiry and creeping. (britannica.com)
Sect
- Brachyceratium Vaccinium dependens Sect. (wikipedia.org)
- Cinctosandra Vaccinium exul Sect. (wikipedia.org)
- Conchophyllum Vaccinium corymbodendron Vaccinium delavayi Vaccinium emarginatum Vaccinium griffithianum Vaccinium meridionale Vaccinium moupinense - Himalayan blueberry Vaccinium neilgherrense Vaccinium nummularia Vaccinium retusum Sect. (wikipedia.org)
- Eococcus Vaccinium fragile Sect. (wikipedia.org)
- Epigynium Vaccinium vacciniaceum Sect. (wikipedia.org)
- Galeopetalum Vaccinium chunii Vaccinium dunalianum Vaccinium glaucoalbum Vaccinium urceolatum Sect. (wikipedia.org)
cultivation
- Cranberries are a major commercial crop in certain American states and Canadian provinces (see cultivation and uses below). (wikipedia.org)
fruits
- Unlike large cranberry, this species is rarely cultivated, although some avid berry-pickers brave boggy conditions to harvest its fruits. (newenglandwild.org)
- Cranberry, canneberge gros fruits Aiton, William. (wikipedia.org)
- In addition, a subset of these panels were used to genotype (characterize with molecular markers) seedlings extracted from fruits in a cranberry bed planted to the cultivar Stevens. (usda.gov)
- A subset of 3 multiplexing panels containing 12 SSR markers was used to genotype 174 seedlings from fruits collected in a commercial cranberry bed of the cultivar Stevens, and identification of intra-cultivar heterogeneity was investigated in the bed to validate the use of the markers in such future applications. (usda.gov)
Small
- The traditional English name for the plant more common in Europe, Vaccinium oxycoccos, fenberry, originated from plants with small red berries found growing in fen (marsh) lands of England. (wikipedia.org)
- Small cranberry is distinguished from the other creeping cranberry of wetlands, large cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon) by its smaller, oval leaves with acute tips and margins that roll under. (newenglandwild.org)
- The small-fruited, or northern, cranberry ( V. oxycoccos ) is found in marshy land in northern North America and Asia and in northern and central Europe. (britannica.com)
- Here is a list of host plants used by the bog copper: Large cranberry, Vaccinium macrocarpon Small cranberry, Vaccinium oxycoccos The adults feed on water and nectar from cranberry flowers. (wikipedia.org)
traditionally
- In regions where they are grown, cranberries are a popular pie filling, their juice is widely marketed as a beverage, and in sauce and relish form cranberries are traditionally associated with U.S. and Canadian Thanksgiving and Christmas meals. (britannica.com)
- Cranberry has been traditionally consumed to combat the micro-organisms that cause genitourinary infections. (herbazest.com)
plant
- The name vaccinium was used in classical Latin for a plant, possibly the bilberry or a hyacinth, and may be derived from the Latin bacca, berry, although its ultimate derivation is obscure. (wikipedia.org)
- American cranberry American cranberry plant ( Vaccinium macrocarpon ). (britannica.com)
- Adults like to sip drops of dew clinging to leaves and almost exclusively nectar on their host plant, cranberries. (wikipedia.org)
- These markers can be used to assess the genetic homogeneity of grower and licensed propagators' cranberry beds, to protect the intellectual property rights of plant breeders, and to enable cranberry researchers to monitor the genetic identity of genotypes within their breeding programs and genetic studies. (usda.gov)
- Hailing from North America , the cranberry plant found a place within human culture long before its first recorded appearance in the 14th century , when it was used by indigenous peoples as both medicine and food. (herbazest.com)
stems
- This cranberry can spread by layering, a process in which prostrate stems lay down new roots where they contact the ground. (newenglandwild.org)
Genetic
- Cranberry is in need of inexpensive high-throughput DNA fingerprinting methods for genetic research and germplasm purity testing for agricultural purposes. (usda.gov)
- Several important cranberry cultivars and selections (n=18) and a diploid accession of V. oxycoccos were genotyped with the multiplexing panels and separated through principal component analysis (PCA) to demonstrate their effectiveness for DNA fingerprinting and genetic diversity analysis. (usda.gov)
markers
- The panels contained a total of 61 molecular markers which easily separated important commercial cranberry cultivars. (usda.gov)
- Therefore, we designed and validated 16-multiplexing panels containing 61 evenly distributed simple sequence (SSR) markers, with non-overlapping allele ranges, throughout the 12 cranberry linkage groups. (usda.gov)
berries
- Calling the red berries, sasemineash, the Narragansett people may have introduced cranberries to colonists in Massachusetts. (wikipedia.org)
- It is more robust than V. oxycoccos and has larger round, oblong, or pear-shaped berries that vary in colour from pink to very dark red or mottled red and white. (britannica.com)
sauce
- Most cranberries are processed into products such as juice, sauce, jam, and sweetened dried cranberries, with the remainder sold fresh to consumers. (wikipedia.org)
- Cranberry sauce is a traditional accompaniment to turkey at Christmas dinner in the United Kingdom, and at Christmas and Thanksgiving dinners in the United States and Canada. (wikipedia.org)
molecular
- This study developed sixteen molecular marker panels, which can be used for high-throughput DNA fingerprinting in cranberry. (usda.gov)
grown
- The American cranberry is grown extensively in Massachusetts , New Jersey , and Wisconsin and near the Pacific coast in Washington and Oregon . (britannica.com)
wild
- The American cranberry ( V. macrocarpon ) is found wild in the greater part of the northeastern United States. (britannica.com)
North American
- Lycaena epixanthe, the bog copper or cranberry-bog copper, is a North American butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. (wikipedia.org)
- The bog copper is the smallest North American copper. (wikipedia.org)
- These multiplexing panels represent an important, applicable resource for cranberry researchers and farmers of the North American industry. (usda.gov)
several
- Several photographs of this herb (also known as Vaccinium oxycoccos). (dmoztools.net)