Re: [lojban] Re: bakyjba

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

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.

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