Cranberries grow on the ground and are suitable for growing in acidic peat soil in cool areas of the northern hemisphere. Cranberry plants growing in low-lying areas grow new leaves in May and buds in June every year. When the flowers are in full bloom, the green spots begin to become obvious. These green spots are cranberry fruits that ripen later. 9./kloc-After the fruit ripens in October, the leaves turn red slowly and the plants begin to prepare for winter.
The plant is 5 ~ 20 cm high, the vines spread about 2 meters, with 5~ 10 mm oval leaves, dark pink flowers, bent petals and bare stamens pointing forward. The whole looks like a crane, and the flowers are like the head and mouth of a crane, so cranberries are also called "crane berries".
Its fruit is an oval berry, 2~5 cm long, which turns from white to crimson and tastes sour and slightly sweet. Most of them are harvested by wet method, and the fruit farmers inject water into the cranberry fields to make the water surface higher than the cranberry vines 15~20 cm, and the cranberries float to the water surface, and the fruit farmers circle the fruits together and send them to the truck through the conveyor belt.
Dry harvesting uses a picker with a comb conveyor belt. Pickers pick cranberries from branches, transport them directly into sacks, and then put them on conveyor belts to spread them for about 2 m ... It has 5~ 10 mm oval leaves and dark pink flowers, with bent petals and bare stamens pointing forward. The whole looks like a crane, and the flowers are like the head and mouth of a crane, so cranberries are also called "crane berries".
Its fruit is an oval berry, 2~5cm long, which turns from white to crimson and tastes sour and slightly sweet.