Showing Food Sparkleberry
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Name | Sparkleberry | ||||||||||
Scientific Name | Vaccinium arboreum | ||||||||||
Description | Vaccinium arboreum (Sparkleberry or Farkleberry) is a species of Vaccinium native to the southeastern United States, from southern Virginia west to southeastern Nebraska, south to Florida and eastern Texas, and north to Illinois. The fruit is a round dry berry about 6 mm in diameter, green at first, black when ripe, edible but bitter and tough. | ||||||||||
Primary ID | FOOD00190 | ||||||||||
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Group | Fruits | ||||||||||
Sub-Group | Berries | ||||||||||
Taxonomy | |||||||||||
Superkingdom | Eukaryota | ||||||||||
Kingdom | Viridiplantae | ||||||||||
Phylum | Streptophyta | ||||||||||
Class | Magnoliopsida | ||||||||||
Order | Ericales | ||||||||||
Family | Ericaceae | ||||||||||
Genus | Vaccinium | ||||||||||
Species | arboreum | ||||||||||
Variety | Not Available | ||||||||||
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ITIS ID | 23580 | ||||||||||
Wikipedia ID | Sparkleberry | ||||||||||
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Content Reference | — Shinbo, Y., et al. 'KNApSAcK: a comprehensive species-metabolite relationship database.' Plant Metabolomics. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. 165-181. |