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Diddle Dee

Empetrum rubrum

Also called Red Crowberry

Diddle Dee
Photo: Lomvi2, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SC. & S. Chile to S. Argentina and Tristan da Cunha
Climate
temperate

About

Empetrum rubrum, known as red crowberry or diddle-dee (Chilean Spanish: Murtilla de Magallanes), is a species of plant in the heath family, Ericaceae.

Where it grows

The species is distributed in Chile from Talca (35°S) to Cape Horn (55°S), in areas of adjacent Argentina, in the Falkland Islands, and in Tristan da Cunha. One of its northernmost natural growing places is Laguna del Maule.

Other Empetrum plants

Purple crowberry · Korean Crowberry · Black crowberry · Crowberry

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Empetrum rubrum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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