Blueberry
<p><font size="3"><b>Blueberries</b> are a group of </font><a title="Flowering plant" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowering_plant"><font size="3">flowering plants</font></a><font size="3"> in the genus <i><a title="Vaccinium" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccinium">Vaccinium</a></i>, sect. <i>Cyanococcus</i>. The species are native to </font><a title="North America" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America"><font size="3">North America</font></a><font size="3"> and eastern </font><a title="Asia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia"><font size="3">Asia</font></a><font size="3">. They are </font><a title="Shrub" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrub"><font size="3">shrubs</font></a><font size="3"> varying in size from 10 cm tall to 4 m tall; the smaller species are known as "lowbush blueberries", and the larger species as "highbush blueberries". The </font><a title="Leaf" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf"><font size="3">leaves</font></a><font size="3"> can be either </font><a title="Deciduous" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deciduous"><font size="3">deciduous</font></a><font size="3"> or </font><a title="Evergreen" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen"><font size="3">evergreen</font></a><font size="3">, ovate to lanceolate, and from 1-8 cm long and 0.5-3.5 cm broad. The </font><a title="Flower" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower"><font size="3">flowers</font></a><font size="3"> are bell-shaped, white, pale pink or red, sometimes tinged greenish.</font></p><p><font size="3">The </font><a title="Fruit" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit"><font size="3">fruit</font></a><font size="3"> is a </font><a title="Berry" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry"><font size="3">berry</font></a><font size="3"> 5-16 mm diameter with a flared "crown" at the end; they are pale greenish at first, then reddish-purple, and finally turn blue or dark purple on ripening. They have a sweet taste when mature, with variable acidity. The blueberry season typically runs from May to October, peaking in July.</font></p><p><font size="3">All the species whose </font><a title="Common name" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_name"><font size="3">common names</font></a><font size="3"> in English include "blueberry" are currently classified in section <i>Cyanococcus</i> of the genus <i>Vaccinium</i>. Other sections in the genus, native to other parts of the world including </font><a title="Europe" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe"><font size="3">Europe</font></a><font size="3">, include other wild shrubs producing edible berries such as </font><a title="Cranberry" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranberry"><font size="3">cranberries</font></a><font size="3">, </font><a title="Bilberry" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilberry"><font size="3">bilberries</font></a><font size="3"> and </font><a title="Cowberry" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowberry"><font size="3">cowberries</font></a><font size="3">. Many of these have blue berries and are very similar in use and taste to blueberries. Furthermore their names in languages other than English often translate as "blueberry", e.g. </font><a title="Scots (language)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_(language)"><font size="3">Scots</font></a><font size="3">
<i>Blaeberry</i> and </font><a title="Norwegian (language)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_(language)"><font size="3">Norwegian</font></a><font size="3">
<i>Blåbær</i>. There is thus considerable scope for confusion. This page, however, deals only with the plants called "blueberry" in English, i.e. section <i>Cyanococcus</i> of the genus.</font></p><p><font size="3">Although blueberries are native to North America, they are now grown also in Australia, New Zealand and South American countries</font><a class="external autonumber" title="http://www.blueberry.org/blueberries.htm" href="http://www.blueberry.org/blueberries.htm" rel="nofollow"><font size="3">[1]</font></a><font size="3">, and are air-shipped as fresh produce to markets around the world. Blueberries are one of the only human foods naturally colored blue.</font></p>[attach]6815[/attach]<br/>
