Blueberry English: blueberry

Word: n. blueberry

Blueberry cultivation of the earliest countries is the United States, but so far less than a hundred years of cultivation history. Because of its high health value so popular around the world, is the World Food and Agriculture Organization recommended one of the top five healthy fruits.?

The quality of blueberries in North America is globally renowned. Half-highbush blueberries are suitable for planting in cold temperate regions, northern highbush blueberries and some half-highbush blueberries are suitable for planting in warm-temperate regions, and rabbit's eye blueberries and southern highbush blueberries are suitable for planting in subtropical regions.

Blueberries are divided into two kinds: one is low-bush, short-footed wild, small particles, rich in anthocyanins; the second is the artificial cultivation of blueberries, which can grow up to 240 cm in height, with larger fruits and full flesh, which improves the edible taste of the wild blueberries, and enhances the human body's absorption of anthocyanins. There are more than 400 species of Vaccinium myrtillus distributed all over the world, mainly produced in the United States is also known as the American blueberry.

China's wild blueberries are mainly produced in Changbai Mountain, Daxinganling and Xiaoxinganling forest areas, and most of them are in the Daxinganling area. Only in recent years the success of artificial domestication cultivation, China's research on blueberries began in the early 1980s, by the Jilin Agricultural University Small Berry Research Institute was the first to enter the field of blueberry research, and the first to establish a blueberry industrialized production base.

Blueberry fruit size, color varies by species. Most varieties have dark blue or violet-colored fruits when ripe, such as rabbit-eye blueberry, highbush blueberry and shortbush blueberry, and a few varieties are red.

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