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lowbush blueberries

20 years ago

Went to a native plant sale a couple of weeks ago. Amongst other plants, I purchased 3 lowbush blueberries. Anyway, they were labelled lowbush blueberries, however, one of the plants has slightly larger leaves. I wasn't sure if the plant was mislabelled or if there may be more than one form of lowbush blueberries. When I was walking one of my dogs today, I spotted two highbush blueberries in someone's front yard... these leaves were WAY bigger than the leaves on my blueberry bush in question. Is there a wild blueberry expert out there who has any comments? If I do have more than one kind of lowbush blueberry, will these all cross-pollinate eachother? Or perhaps the one with the slightly bigger leaves is a male? (ha ha--- just a thought)

Jenny

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  • 20 years ago

    There are at least 3 different species of plant called lowbush blueberry in the east (Vaccinium angustifolium, V. pallidum, and V. mytilloides) and several more, some not even in genus Vaccinum, in the midwest and west. Further, like all plants there is variation within each species. I'm just surprised that even 2 of them looked really alike.

    Most likely these are all Vaccinum, and should cross pollinate.

    George