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Vaccinium myrtillus, the Glossary

Vaccinium myrtillus or European blueberry is a holarctic species of shrub with edible fruit of blue color, known by the common names bilberry, blaeberry, wimberry, and whortleberry.^[1]

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Flora of Iceland
Subshrubs

Aegean Islands

The Aegean Islands are the group of islands in the Aegean Sea, with mainland Greece to the west and north and Turkey to the east; the island of Crete delimits the sea to the south, those of Rhodes, Karpathos and Kasos to the southeast.

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Amédée Masclef

Amédée Masclef (9 August 1858 Béthune – 1916) was a French abbé and botanist best known for his three-volume 400-plate work 'Atlas des plantes de France' published in Paris in 1891 and re-issued in 1893.

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Anthony Huxley

Anthony Julian Huxley (2 December 1920 – 26 December 1992) was a British botanist.

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Arts Council England

Arts Council England is an arm's length non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

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Austria

Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.

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Barren vegetation

Barren vegetation describes an area of land where plant growth may be sparse, stunted, and/or contain limited biodiversity.

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Berberis aquifolium

Berberis aquifolium, the Oregon grape or holly-leaved barberry, is a species of flowering plant in the family Berberidaceae, native to western North America. Vaccinium myrtillus and Berberis aquifolium are Flora of Alaska, Flora of Western Canada and Flora of the Western United States.

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Bilberry

Bilberries or blueberries are Eurasian low-growing shrubs in the genus Vaccinium in the flowering plant family Ericaceae that bear edible, dark blue berries. Vaccinium myrtillus and Bilberry are berries, Medicinal plants and Vaccinium.

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Blaeberry River

The Blaeberry River is a tributary of the Columbia River in the Columbia Country of British Columbia, Canada, rising in the Canadian Rockies on the south side of Howse Pass and joining the Columbia midway between the town of Golden, at the confluence of the Kicking Horse River, and the east foot of the Rogers Pass, at the head of Kinbasket Lake and the mouth of the Beaver River.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.

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Climate change

In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.

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Crete

Crete (translit, Modern:, Ancient) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.

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Crimea

Crimea is a peninsula in Eastern Europe, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov.

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Cyprus

Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

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Dietary supplement

A dietary supplement is a manufactured product intended to supplement a person's diet by taking a pill, capsule, tablet, powder, or liquid.

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Dye

A dye is a colored substance that chemically bonds to the substrate to which it is being applied.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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European Russia

European Russia is the western and most populated part of the Russian Federation.

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Heath

A heath is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation.

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Holarctic realm

The Holarctic realm is a biogeographic realm that comprises the majority of habitats found throughout the continents in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Lignin

Lignin is a class of complex organic polymers that form key structural materials in the support tissues of most plants.

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Moorland

Moorland or moor is a type of habitat found in upland areas in temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands and montane grasslands and shrublands biomes, characterised by low-growing vegetation on acidic soils.

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Moraine

A moraine is any accumulation of unconsolidated debris (regolith and rock), sometimes referred to as glacial till, that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions, and that has been previously carried along by a glacier or ice sheet.

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Muffin

A muffin is an individually portioned baked product; however, the term can refer to one of two distinct items: a part-raised flatbread (like a crumpet) that is baked and then cooked on a griddle (typically unsweetened), or a (often sweetened) quickbread that is chemically leavened and then baked in a mold.

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Myrtus

Myrtus (commonly called myrtle) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae. Vaccinium myrtillus and Myrtus are Medicinal plants.

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Plant defense against herbivory

Plant defense against herbivory or host-plant resistance (HPR) is a range of adaptations evolved by plants which improve their survival and reproduction by reducing the impact of herbivores.

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Sardinia

Sardinia (Sardegna; Sardigna) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the twenty regions of Italy.

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Shrub

A shrub or bush is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant.

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Sicily

Sicily (Sicilia,; Sicilia,, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.

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Syrup

In cooking, syrup (less commonly sirup; from شراب;, beverage, wine and sirupus) is a condiment that is a thick, viscous liquid consisting primarily of a solution of sugar in water, containing a large amount of dissolved sugars but showing little tendency to deposit crystals.

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Traditional medicine

Traditional medicine (also known as indigenous medicine or folk medicine) comprises medical aspects of traditional knowledge that developed over generations within the folk beliefs of various societies, including indigenous peoples, before the era of modern medicine.

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Triterpene

Triterpenes are a class of terpenes composed of six isoprene units with the molecular formula C30H48; they may also be thought of as consisting of three terpene units.

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Turkey

Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.

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Vaccinium

Vaccinium is a common and widespread genus of shrubs or dwarf shrubs in the heath family (Ericaceae). Vaccinium myrtillus and Vaccinium are Subshrubs.

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Vaccinium corymbosum

Vaccinium corymbosum, the northern highbush blueberry, is a North American species of blueberry which has become a food crop of significant economic importance. Vaccinium myrtillus and Vaccinium corymbosum are Vaccinium.

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Vaccinium uliginosum

Vaccinium uliginosum (bog bilberry, bog blueberry, northern bilberry or western blueberry) is a Eurasian and North American flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae. Vaccinium myrtillus and Vaccinium uliginosum are berries, Flora of Greenland, Flora of temperate Asia, Flora of the Western United States and Vaccinium.

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VisitEngland

VisitEngland is the official tourist board for England.

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York Archaeological Trust

The York Archaeological Trust for Excavation and Research Limited (YAT) is an educational charity, established in 1972 in the city of York, England, and trading under the York Archaeology brand.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccinium_myrtillus

Also known as Blaeberry, Blue Whortleberry, Common Bilberry, Fraughan, Hurtleberry, Myrtillus niger, Myrtillus sylvaticus, Myrtle blueberry, Vaccinium oreophilum, Vitis-idaea myrtillus.

Vaccinium myrtillus, the Glossary

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See also

Flora of Iceland

Subshrubs

References