From cowan@ccil.org Wed Nov 26 07:11:19 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 52064 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2003 15:11:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m7.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 26 Nov 2003 15:11:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 Nov 2003 15:11:18 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AP1K1-0003bJ-00; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:11:17 -0500 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:11:17 -0500 To: d95mback@dtek.chalmers.se Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: bakyjba Message-ID: <20031126151117.GB8236@mercury.ccil.org> References: <20031125180200.GU9729@digitalkingdom.org> <20031125184043.49942.qmail@web41904.mail.yahoo.com> <20031125191407.GF26214@mercury.ccil.org> <20031125192257.GG9729@digitalkingdom.org> <1069835538.29757.12.camel@ludvig.safelogic.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1069835538.29757.12.camel@ludvig.safelogic.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 192.190.237.100 X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=212516 X-Yahoo-Profile: johnwcowan X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 21284 Martin Norb?ck scripsit: > The fruit that we in Sweden call "blåbär" [blueberry] is Vaccinium > myrtillus which may be what you call "bilberry". So it is. Some, however, call this the whortleberry/huckleberry, whereas others apply that name to _V. vitis-idaea_, and still others to wild _V. corymbosum_. "The situation is clearly very confused." > http://www.voringfossen.com/flora/blaabaer.jpg It looks quite familiar to me. > The English "blueberry" seems to be Vaccinium corymbosum, which can be > found in North America and Asia. Two kinds of N.A. blueberries are commercialized, lowbush and highbush, the former primarily in things like blueberry muffins, because they are smaller (though to my mind much tastier; like cranberries, they are harvested wild rather than deliberately cultivated). The highbush blueberry is definitely a cultivar of _V. corymbosum_; the lowbush is apparently _V. angustifolia_, though a few sources say _V. pallidum_. Some of these Linnaean names may be synonymous. -- John Cowan http://www.reutershealth.com http://www.ccil.org/~cowan .e'osai ko sarji la lojban. Please support Lojban! http://www.lojban.org