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Vaccinium oxycoccos L.

Bog cranberry (en), Myrtille des marais (fr), Airelle canneberge (fr), Canneberge à gros fruits (fr), Canneberge commune (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Ericales > Ericaceae > Vaccinium

Characteristics

Plants trailing, shoots 0.1-0.3(-0.5) dm. Leaf blades glaucous abaxially, green adaxially, ovate, sometimes elliptic, 3-10 × 1-5 mm, coriaceous, margins entire, strongly revolute. Inflorescences in axils of leaflike bracts at base of previous year’s or older shoots, (leafy portion often failing to elongate). Pedicels nodding, slender, 2-3 cm, bracteolate or not; bracteoles 1-5, reddish, scalelike, to 1 mm wide. Flowers: calyx lobes relatively small; corolla strongly reflexed at anthesis, white to deep pink; filaments hairy; anther tubules 2-2.5 mm. Berries deep red, red-spotted at first, 6-12 mm diam., smooth. 2n = 24, 48, 72.
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Much like no. 17 [Vaccinium macrocarpon Aiton]; lvs flat to strongly revolute, ovate or elliptic-ovate, 2–10 mm, commonly acute; fls 1–4 from the axils of the uppermost reduced lvs, forming a terminal cluster; bracteoles red, scale-like, 0.5–1.5(–2) × < 1 mm, borne somewhat above to considerably below the middle of the pedicel; style 3–4 mm; fr 6–12 mm; 2n=24, 48, 72. Bogs; circumboreal, s. to N.J., Pa., O., n. Ind., and Minn. May–July. (Oxycoccus o.; O. palustris; O. quadripetalus)
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread endozoochory
Mature width (meter) 0.1 - 0.5
Mature height (meter) 0.1 - 0.3
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color
Fruiting months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Acid boggy land. Half buried in Sphagnum hummocks in bogs, fens, muskeg, arctic-alpine tundra; at elevations from sea level to 1,500 metres.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 4-9
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 2-4
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 2-6

Usage

Uses beverage dye food forage gene source medicinal
Edible fruits leaves
Therapeutic use Unspecified (unspecified), Antiemetic (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) 365
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 23
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -45
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Habit

Vaccinium oxycoccos habit picture by Francois Mansour (cc-by-sa)
Vaccinium oxycoccos habit picture by koozmim (cc-by-sa)
Vaccinium oxycoccos habit picture by Alyona Appel (cc-by-sa)

Leaf

Vaccinium oxycoccos leaf picture by ArtoKJ (cc-by-sa)
Vaccinium oxycoccos leaf picture by Fischer Bernhard (cc-by-sa)
Vaccinium oxycoccos leaf picture by Francois Mansour (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Vaccinium oxycoccos flower picture by blumma (cc-by-sa)
Vaccinium oxycoccos flower picture by Klemen Eler (cc-by-sa)
Vaccinium oxycoccos flower picture by Talvilahti Heidi (cc-by-sa)

Fruit

Vaccinium oxycoccos fruit picture by Marleen (cc-by-sa)
Vaccinium oxycoccos fruit picture by Dominique Colas (cc-by-sa)
Vaccinium oxycoccos fruit picture by Ermakov Konstantin (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Vaccinium oxycoccos world distribution map, present in Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Canada, Switzerland, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Greenland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), Romania, Russian Federation, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine, and United States of America

Conservation status

Vaccinium oxycoccos threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:261956-2
WFO ID wfo-0000421932
COL ID 7F6VG
BDTFX ID 70493
INPN ID 128347
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Vaccinium oxycoccos Schollera oxycoccos Vaccinium oxycoccos f. oxycoccos Oxycoccus vulgaris Oxycoccus quadripetalus Oxycoccus oxycoccos Oxycoccus palustris Oxycoccus quadripetalus Vaccinium oxycoccos var. oxycoccos

Lower taxons

Vaccinium oxycoccos subsp. microphyllum
WorldFloraDB 2024