The appearance of cranberries is:

The plant height is 5 to 20cm, and the vine-like branches spread about 2m. It has 5 to 10mm oval leaves and dark pink flowers. The bent petals and exposed stamens point forward. The overall look is like a crane, and the flowers are like the head and mouth of a crane, so cranberry is also called "craneberry". ". Its fruit is an oval berry 2 to 5cm long, changing from white to deep red, and tastes heavy sour and slightly sweet.

Distribution range

Cranberries mainly grow in the cold northern hemisphere, limited to Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Maine, etc. in the northern United States and Quebec, Canada. The state of Colombia, as well as Chile in South America, and a small piece of northeastern Europe.

The production of the United States accounts for 95% of the world's total, of which Wisconsin's production ranks first, accounting for 50% of the total production of the United States, and Massachusetts, which ranks second, accounts for 28% of the total production. %. The growth in production is due to the continued increase in demand for cranberry products. Since cranberry fruits are not resistant to storage and transportation, they are usually sold as frozen fruits or processed into cans, jams, juices and other products.

The Red Sea Cranberry Base in Fuyuan City, Heilongjiang Province, China, ushered in a bumper harvest in 2019, breaking the situation of domestic cranberry supply relying on imports, and officially starting the first year of domestic cranberry production. . As of 2019, China’s cranberry planting area is approximately 4,200 acres, which is also the largest cranberry planting base in Asia.