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(First upload on March 16 2009. Last on September 24 2020) [ 日本語 | English ]

Vaccinium oxycoccos L.






Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

Subfamily Vaccinoideae (スノキ)
Vaccinium L. (スノキ)
Tsurukokemomo, ツルコケモモ, 蔓苔桃), common cranberry
Lifeform: evergreen creeping shrub
Distribution: widespread throughout the cool temperate Northern Hemisphere
Habitat: acidic peatland ⇒ wetland (湿原)
Fruit: berry (edible) ⇒
Seed dispersal: animal
Synonyms:

Oxycoccus quadripetalus Gilib., used when the genus is established
Oxycoccus palustris Pers. ssp. hagerupii (A. et D.Löve) A. P. Khokhr. et Mazurenko
Oxycoccus palustris Pers.
Oxycoccus oxycoccos (L.) MacMill.

f. leucanthum (T. Shimizu) Yonek. (シロバナツルコケモモ)
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Vaccinium oxycoccos in Hokkaido


On a post-mined peatland in Sarobetsu mire (サロベツ湿原)

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[1/2] estabishing with Drosera rotundifolia and other wetland plants on July 5, 2006. [3] on September 23 2020. [4-6] on June 12 2019. Records: on May 22 2016. Flowering on July 14 2022.

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