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Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
HOME > Plant list (植物リスト) > Ericaceae (ツツジ科) > Vaccinium praestans
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 berryLifeform: 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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[1-3] along the seacoast of Hamatonbetsu, where Vaccinium vitis-idaea established, in Sarufutsu Village, northern Hokkaido, on August 27 2015.