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Vaccinium glaucoalbum
Vaccinium glaucoalbum, the grey-white blueberry, is a Himalayan and southwest Chinese shrub in the heather family, grown mainly as an ornamental. It is hardy and does best in cool, moist, acidic soil.
Vaccinium glaucoalbum, the grey-white blueberry, is an Asian species of Vaccinium.
The species is native to Nepal, the east Himalayas, Myanmar, Tibet, and Yunnan in China.
The species has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit as an ornamental. Local people collect and eat the fruit.
Lowbush blueberry · Farkleberry · Northern blueberry · Sea bilberry · New Jersey blueberry · Dwarf bilberry · Highbush blueberry · Creeping blueberry · Azorean Bilberry · Darrow's blueberry · Elliott's blueberry · Southern mountain cranberry
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Vaccinium glaucoalbum 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.
