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Vaccinium macrocarpon
Also called American Cranberry, Large Cranberry, Cramberry, Wild Cranberry, Fenberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon is a trailing, low-growing evergreen shrub native to North America, grown commercially for its tart red berries. It thrives in acidic, moist, sandy-peat soil with plenty of sun and is usually grown in wet beds or bogs.
Vaccinium macrocarpon, also called large cranberry, American cranberry and bearberry, is a North American species of cranberry.
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). It is also naturalized in parts of Europe and scattered locations in North America along western Canada (British Columbia) and the western U.S. (West Coast).
The berries are edible, for which the species is grown commercially as a cash crop. Many cranberries are grown in wetland soils consisting of alternating layers of organic matter and sand; modern harvesting techniques include temporarily flooding fields, shaking berries loose, and gathering the floating berries.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Vaccinium macrocarpon 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.
