A large and varied genus of about 450 evergreen, semi evergreen, or deciduous shrubs, trees, and vines, widely distributed throughout artic and tropical regions, occurring in variety of habitats, from heath and moorland to bogs and woodland. \u00a0They are valued for their ornamental foliage, flowers, and berries. \u00a0The leathery leaves are alternate, and may be lance shaped to oval or rounded, with or without teeth, the deciduous species often have pointed tips, and display brilliant autumn color. \u00a0The small urn to bell shaped flowers are white, green, pink, purple, or red and are produced singly or in terminal or axillary racemes in spring or early summer and are downward facing. \u00a0The flowers are followed by edible, usually spherical berries, some species, including V. angustifolium var. laevifolium, V. ashei, V. corymbosum, and V. macrocaron, are grown for their fruits (Blueberries, cranberries, bilberry, huckleberry, \u00a0and whortleberry which are red or blue-black and are often covered with a bloom when ripe). \u00a0Vacciniums are useful for a shrub border, woodland garden, or rock garden.<\/p>\n
Grow in acidic, peaty or sandy, moist but well drained soil in full sun or partial shade, some prefer boggy ground. \u00a0Protect from the hottest summer sun.<\/p>\n
Prone to caterpillars, scale insects, gray mold (botrytis), leaf gall, bud gall, dieback, Phytoptora crown and root rot, powdery mildew, rust, and witches broom.<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n V. macrocarpon <\/b><\/strong>\u2018Hamilton\u2019 <\/b><\/strong>\u2013 Oxycoccus macrocarpon \u2013 American Cranberry<\/b><\/strong>\u2013 Thisdwarf, \u00a0prostrate, mat forming evergreen shrub, grows 6\u201d-3\u2019 feet tall can roots as it spread enabling it to have an indefinite spread. \u00a0It produces elliptic to oblong, smooth edged, dark green leaves with paler undersides, less than an inch long, which may take on bronze color in winter. \u00a0In summer, pink, pendent bell shaped flowers, \u00bd\u201d across with 4 slender, reflexed lobes, are produced singly from the leaf axils or in clusters of 2-10 with stamens that extend beyond the petals. \u00a0Flowers are followed by edible, spherical tart red berries, to \u00be\u201d across. \u00a0Best in cool, moist to wet soil in sun. \u00a0Commercially grown for jellies and preserves.<\/p>\n Zones 2-7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Vaccinium \u2013 Blueberry \u2013 Cranberry \u2013 Huckleberry \u2013 A large and varied genus of about 450 evergreen, semi evergreen, or deciduous shrubs, trees, and vines, widely distributed throughout artic and tropical regions, occurring in variety of habitats, from heath and moorland to bogs and woodland. \u00a0They are valued for their ornamental foliage, flowers, and berries. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[27,84,21,41,16,20],"product_tag":[],"common-name":[],"toolset-meta":{"plant-product-fields":{"is-featured-product":{"type":"checkbox","raw":""},"zone":{"type":"checkboxes","raw":"","checked":[],"formatted":""},"scientific-name":{"type":"textfield","raw":""}},"toolset-woocommerce-fields":{"_download_limit":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_virtual":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_downloadable":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_download_expiry":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_download_type":{"type":"radio","raw":""},"_regular_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price_dates_from":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sale_price_dates_to":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sku":{"type":"textfield","raw":"PDE-160253716"},"_manage_stock":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_stock_status":{"type":"radio","raw":"instock"},"_stock":{"type":"numeric","raw":null},"_backorders":{"type":"radio","raw":"no"},"_sold_individually":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_width":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_weight":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_length":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_purchase_note":{"type":"textarea","raw":""}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/5126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=5126"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=5126"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=5126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}