Showing Food Oval-leaf huckleberry
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| Name | Oval-leaf huckleberry | ||||||||||
| Scientific Name | Vaccinium ovalifolium | ||||||||||
| Description | Vaccinium ovalifolium (commonly known as Alaska blueberry, early blueberry, oval-leaf bilberry, oval-leaf blueberry, and oval-leaf huckleberry) is a plant in the heath family having three varieties, all of which grow in northerly regions, including the subarctic. Vaccinium ovalifolium is used by in jams and jellies and for making liqueur. Blueberry herbal tea can be made from the leaves, or from the juice of the blueberries themselves. | ||||||||||
| Primary ID | FOOD00221 | ||||||||||
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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 | ovalifolium | ||||||||||
| Variety | Not Available | ||||||||||
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| ITIS ID | 23607 | ||||||||||
| Wikipedia ID | Vaccinium_ovalifolium | ||||||||||
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| Compounds |
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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. | ||||||||||