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Lingonberry
Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Vaccinium vitis-idaea (lingonberry, partridgeberry, mountain cranberry or 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. Lingonberries are picked in the wild and used to accompany a variety of dishes in Northern Baltoscandia and Russia. Commercial cultivation is undertaken in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and in many other regions of the world.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.779

History of Rare Plants Observed in Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1583 · p.84

History of Rare Plants Observed in Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1583 · p.83

Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.79

Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.80
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 56312.