Vaccinium gaultherioides (Alpen-Rauschbeere, Alpen-Mehlbeere) -- back to mainpage

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Schwarzbeere (links), Mehlbeere (=Rauschbeere) (rechts):

Bilberries include several closely related species of the Vaccinium genus, including:

• Vaccinium myrtillus L. (common bilberry, European blueberry, blue whortleberry [blaeberry, hurtleberry, huckleberry, fraughan, fragham , frocken, whinberry, blackheart, bullberry, blackberry?, hartberry, horts, huckleberry, hurtleberry, whortle bilberry])
• Vaccinium cyanococcus
• Vaccinium uliginosum L. (bog bilberry, bog blueberry, bog whortleberry, bog huckleberry, northern bilberry, ground hurts)
• Vaccinium caespitosum Michx. (dwarf bilberry)
• Vaccinium deliciosum Piper (cascade bilberry)
• Vaccinium membranaceum (mountain bilberry ?, thinleaf huckleberry, tall huckleberry, big huckleberry, mountain huckleberry, square-twig blueberry, and (ambiguously) as "black huckleberry")
• Vaccinium ovalifolium (oval-leafed blueberry, oval-leaved bilberry, mountain blueberry, high-bush blueberry).
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• Vaccinium corymbosum (American blueberry)
• Vaccinium arboreum (sparkleberry, farkleberry)
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• Vaccinium oxycoccos (cranberry)
• Vaccinium macrocarpon (American cranberry, large cranberry)
• Vaccinium vitis idaea (cowberry, foxberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry)
• Vaccinium parvifolium (red huckleberry)