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Vaccinium whitmeei, the Samoan blueberry, is a hemiepiphytic shrub in the heath family, endemic to the highest montane volcanic slopes of Samoa. It is a wild species of high-elevation scrub rather than a common garden plant, so its cultivation is not well documented.
Vaccinium whitmeei, the Samoan blueberry, is a species of flowering plant in the heath family, Ericaceae. It is endemic to Samoa. It is found above 700 m (2,300 ft) elevation and is only found in montane volcanic scrub, on the highest lava flows. Unlike many Samoan plants, which came from Southeast Asia and New Guinea, the species likely has origins from the temperate Americas.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Vaccinium whitmeei 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.
