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Blueberry Introduction
Blueberry is a deciduous shrub of the Rhododendron family, Bilberry, with green, angular or terete branchlets, usually with rows of pilose hairs; the leaf blade is subleathery, ovate to elliptic, with an acute apex and a cherubic to subrounded base, the margins serrate to entire, dark green, glabrous above and with hairy below.
Racemes, borne on last year's branches, flowers green, glabrous; corolla white to pink, subcylindric; filaments usually pilose. Berries globose, dark blue, glabrous, white powdered; flowering June to July; fruiting August to September. The name blueberry comes from the direct translation of the English "blueberry", meaning blue berries.
Blueberries are native to eastern Canada and the eastern and southern United States, and have been introduced in Japan, China, New Zealand, and Europe. Blueberries like warm climate, more resistant to high temperatures, like half-sunshine environment, like wet environment, drought and waterlogging tolerance are general, it is suitable to use fertile and loose, rich in organic matter of acidic soil planting. Blueberry reproduction is mainly in the form of plugs or cuttings.
Blueberries are sweet and sour in flavor, rich in nutrients, and have the ability to prevent cerebral neurodegeneration, protect vision, strengthen the heart, anti-cancer, soften blood vessels, and enhance the immune function of the human body.
Blueberries, as a small berry species with high economic value and broad prospects for development, top the list of the world's 15 health foods listed by authoritative nutritionists in the United Kingdom, and the International Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (IFAO) in 2017 as one of the five health foods for human beings, known as the "king of berries".
Blueberries have been cultivated around the world for about a century, starting in the U.S. In 1906, Coville first began the selection of wild blueberries, and in 1937, 15 varieties were selected for commercial cultivation. To the 1980s, in the United States has been selected and bred to adapt to the climatic conditions of each region of the excellent varieties of more than 100.
The formation of Maine, Georgia, Florida, New Jersey, Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon, the main economic production areas, a total area of 19,000 hectares. Blueberry has become the main fruit tree species in the United States. Countries around the world competing to introduce cultivation, and according to the climate characteristics and resource advantages to carry out research and cultivation work with national characteristics.
The Netherlands, Canada, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, Finland, the United Kingdom, Poland, Romania, Australia, Bulgaria, New Zealand and Japan have entered commercial cultivation. According to statistics, as of 2013, more than 30 countries and regions around the world have begun industrialized cultivation of blueberries, with a total area of 120,000 hectares and a production of more than 300,000 tons.