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Mortiño or Andean blueberry
Vaccinium floribundum
About
Vaccinium floribundum, commonly known as mortiño or Andean blueberry, is a slender shrub that grows in the northern Andes in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela at elevations from 1,800 to 3,800 metres. It can reach 2–3 m high or it can be dwarf and prostrate. The plant produces an edible fruit, a round berry that is bluish black and glaucous, that is collected and eaten raw and used in preserves. It is sold at some markets and is used for Colada Morada celebrating the Day of the Dead.
- Family
- Ericaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Vaccinium floribundum
- Slug
- vaccinium-floribundum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Ericaceae
- Genus
- Vaccinium
- Species
- floribundum
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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