Showing Food Bog bilberry
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| Name | Bog bilberry | ||||||||||
| Scientific Name | Vaccinium uliginosum | ||||||||||
| Description | Vaccinium uliginosum (Bog Bilberry or Northern Bilberry) is a flowering plant in the genus Vaccinium. The fruit is a dark blue-black berry 5–8 millimetres (0.20–0.31 in) diameter, with a white flesh, edible and sweet when ripe in late summer. | ||||||||||
| Primary ID | FOOD00212 | ||||||||||
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| Group | Fruits | ||||||||||
| Sub-Group | Berries | ||||||||||
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| Superkingdom | Eukaryota | ||||||||||
| Kingdom | Viridiplantae | ||||||||||
| Phylum | Streptophyta | ||||||||||
| Class | Magnoliopsida | ||||||||||
| Order | Ericales | ||||||||||
| Family | Ericaceae | ||||||||||
| Genus | Vaccinium | ||||||||||
| Species | uliginosum | ||||||||||
| Variety | Not Available | ||||||||||
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| ITIS ID | 23574 | ||||||||||
| Wikipedia ID | Vaccinium uliginosum | ||||||||||
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| Content Reference | — Rothwell JA, Pérez-Jiménez J, Neveu V, Medina-Ramon A, M'Hiri N, Garcia Lobato P, Manach C, Knox K, Eisner R, Wishart D, Scalbert A. (2013) Phenol-Explorer 3.0: a major update of the Phenol-Explorer database to incorporate data on the effects of food processing on polyphenol content. Database, 10.1093/database/bat070. — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. 2008. USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 21. Nutrient Data Laboratory Home Page. | ||||||||||