ISHS Acta Horticulturae 346: V International Symposium on Vaccinium Culture
EUROPEAN VACCINIUM SPECIES |
| Authors: | W. jun., S. Dierking, W. Beerenobst |
| Abstract:
Worldwide, the genus Vaccinium includes some 450 species. A number of ice ages forced our indigenous flora southwards through to the Caucasus. Only four Vaccinium species re-conquered Northern Europe: Vaccinium myrtillus, Vaccinium uliginosum, Vaccinium oxycoccus and Vaccinium vitis idaea. Their natural habitats are sandy ground, heath and bogland in Scandinavia, Eurasia, Germany, CSFR, Austria, France, Poland and the Balkans. They are found both on flat land and in mountains (up to a height of 2 800 m). Vaccinium myrtillus, the forest blueberry, and the lingonberry, Vaccinium vitis idaea, are the only two of any economic significance, with the lingonberry being grown commercially in Germany since the seventies - the only native European Vaccinium species to be cultivated. | |
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