Vaccinium myrtillus (Myrtchen-Schwarzbeere) -- back to mainpage
Artepitheton-Etymologie (ex wiktionary.org): myrtus (“Myrte”) + -illus (Diminutive-Suffix), Wortstamm aus dem Altgriechischen μύρτος (múrtos, “Myrte”), semitischen Ursprungs.
Es dürfte wohl weniger die Ähnlichkeite der Blätter (wie vielfach geschrieben) als eher die Ähnlichkeit der Früchte (mit Myrtenfrüchten)
zur Benennung geführt haben:
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Typisch "gehörnte" Antheren:
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Schwarzbeere (links), Mehlbeere (=Rauschbeere) (rechts):
Violett-Färbung durch Anthocynidine:
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 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 angustifolium (American blueberry --> lowbush blueberry)
- Vaccinium corymbosum (American blueberry --> highbush blueberry)
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- 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)
Die in Supermärkten angebotenen "Kultur-Schwarzbeeren" sind meist eine Kreuzung aus Vaccinium angustifolium und V. corymbosum (beide aus den U.S.A).