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Vaccinium praestans Lamb.






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

Subfamily Vaccinoideae (スノキ)
Section Praestantia (イワツツジ)
Vaccinium L. (スノキ)
Iwatsutsuji, イワツツジ, 岩躑躅), Kamchatka bilberry, or mountain berry
Lifeform: deciduous, short shrub < 10 cm tall, developing long rhizomes
Distribution: Far East - Sakhalin - Japan (north to central Honshu) - Kuril - Kamchatka
Habitat: mossy bogs, swampy woods (often on rotting fallen tree trunks), elevated places and slopes in northern Asia
Fruit: red (edible)
Seed dispersal: animal
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Vaccinium praestans in Hokkaido


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[1-3] along the seacoast of Hamatonbetsu, where Vaccinium vitis-idaea established, in Sarufutsu Village, northern Hokkaido, on August 27 2015.

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