20+ Vaccinium Ovatum

The fruit is so small that it takes a good sized portion to make jam jelly or syrup but it is worth the effort for their sweet fresh flavor. Fruit at first is red turning blue black in late summer edible.

Going Native

Vaccinium ovatum

It is surprising we do not grow this shrub more often in the pacific northwest. Many sites currently occupied by this shrub are believed to have burned at relatively infrequent intervals during presettlement times 54. The new growth is bronze and the berries are blue to black.

Ovatum refers to its oval shaped leaves. It is surprising we do not grow this shrub more often in the pacific northwest. Part shade shade.

It even grows well in a container. Beautiful foliage and edible fruit make this a must in most gardens. Vaccinium ovatum can grow in either sun or shade and is tolerant of salt spray.

Vaccinium ovatum fire ecology or adaptations. Vaccinium ovatum can grow in either sun or shade and is tolerant of salt spray. The shrubs are erect or creeping with alternate deciduous or evergreen leaves.

Used in the florist industry pale pink urn shaped flowers borne on short racemes in spring. The role of fire in moist coastal forests of which california huckleberry is an integral understory component is poorly known 69. As a natural or trimmed hedge hedgerow or in a thicket as wildlife habitat it makes a choice plant for the garden.

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