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Vaccinium arctostaphylos
Caucasian whortleberry is a Eurasian shrub from the Caucasus, Turkey, Iran and Bulgaria, grown for its edible blue berries. It is a hardy, cool-climate blueberry relative that needs acidic soil and regular moisture.
Vaccinium arctostaphylos or Caucasian whortleberry is a Eurasian species of shrub with edible fruit of blue color. Its cytology is 2n = 48.
The species is native to Western Asia (Iran and Turkey), the Caucasus (Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russia), and Southeastern Europe (Bulgaria).
In a study on 50 hyperlipidaemic adult patients, an extract of the fruit of V. arctostaphylos was found to have beneficial effects on serum lipid profile and oxidative stress. Each medicinal capsule contained 45 ± 2 mg of anthocyanins.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Vaccinium arctostaphylos by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
