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n. - Blue-black berries similar to American blueberries; Erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries.

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  • Tall pines, a thin growth, stood wherever we turned our eyes, and the ground was covered with the dwarf palmetto, and the whortleberry, which is here an evergreen.
  • These red spots are the blueberry and whortleberry bushes.
  • Raspberry, blackberry and whortleberry may be made the same.
  • Understory growth is not luxuriant, consisting mostly of grouse whortleberry, Oregon grape, and birchleaf spirea.
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