Vaccinium vitis-idaea
English: cowberry, lingonberry Spanish: arándano rojo Estonian: harilik pohl Portuguese: arando-vermelho Turkish: Kekreyemiş
Cowberry is a short evergreen shrub in the heath family that bears edible fruit, native to boreal forest and Arctic tundra throughout the Northern Hemisphere from Eurasia to North America.
Catalan: nabiu vermell
Flowers
The flowers are bell-shaped, white to pale pink, 3 – 8 mm long, and produced in the early summer.
Leaves
Leaves grow alternately and are oval, 5 – 30 mm long, with a slightly wavy margin, and sometimes with a notched tip. Leaves are hairless.
Fruit
The fruits are rounded and red berries 6 – 10 mm across, with an acidic taste, ripening in late summer to autumn.
Authors: Andero Kivi, Markus Aaron Nelis, Sandra Cojocnean, María Badía Achón, Paula García, Pablo Zamora