A, different morphological characteristics

1, cranberry: plant height 5 ~ 20 cm, vine-like branches spreading about 2 m. It grows 5 ~ 10 mm ovate leaves and dark pink flowers, curved petals and bare stamens pointing forward, the overall look very much like a crane, the flower is like a crane head and beak, so the cranberry is also known as the "crane berry! "

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2, lingonberry: lingonberry is an evergreen dwarf shrub with slender creeping rhizomes in the underground part and 10-30 centimeters tall plants in the aboveground part. The stem is slender, erect or proximally procumbent, and the branches and young twigs are gray-white pubescent.

Two, the distribution range is different

1, cranberry: cranberry mainly grows in the cold northern hemisphere, limited to the northern United States of Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Maine and other states and Canada's Quebec, Columbia, and South America, Chile, a small piece of northeastern Europe.

2, lingonberry: circumpolar distribution, from northern Europe, central Europe, Russia; North America to the western Greenland Islands, Mongolia, North Korea, Japan, Siberia to the Far East part; Kamchatka, the Thousand Islands, Kuril Islands. China, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Xinjiang.

Three, different nutritional composition

1, cranberry: cranberry has high water, low calorie, high fiber, multi-mineral nutritional characteristics.

2, lingonberry: containing a variety of vitamins, glucose, organic acids, etc., can be eaten fresh, but also brewing, jam.

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