What is a low bush cranberry?

Plant: Low-bush cranberry, or lingonberry, is a small, mat-forming, evergreen shrub. It has thick, oval, shiny green leaves; pink, bell-shaped flowers; and edible, sour, round, red berries. The plant grows in Kodiak’s open woods, bogs, and tundra habitats.

How can you tell if cranberries are highbush?

American highbush cranberry has light reddish brown coloring on young twigs that becomes scaly and gray over time. Its buds are large and reddish in color. Leaf color changes from green in spring to bright red in autumn. The leaves are opposite, simple, have three lobes and have coarsely serrated edges.

Are low bush cranberries edible?

This shrub, native to much of Canada, is fast growing, and its fruit can be eaten raw or cooked into a sauce. Lowbush Cranberry is a short, deciduous shrub native to North America. Its white flowers bear sour but edible fruit that ripens to a brilliant red in fall.

What can I do with high bush cranberries?

Highbush cranberry juice can be frozen. Jams, jellies, and sauces made from it can be canned and cooked in a water bath. HIghbush cranberry jelly is excellent with strong cheese, pictured is fourme d’ambert.

Are HIghbush cranberries edible?

Edible Qualities: The fruits/drupes can be eaten raw (though not very tasty that way) or cooked, and like cranberries, they are rich in vitamin C and so have a tart, acid taste (the taste is best after a frost and when picked slightly under-ripe).

What is wild cranberry?

Wild large cranberries (Vaccinium macrocarpon) are native North American plants found in eastern Canada, the Northeastern New England states, the upper Midwestern states, and south to North Carolina. They grow in wet, acidic soils, often in bogs and and swampy spots, in pine barrens, and along coastal areas.

Are there wild cranberries?

Wild cranberries grow in spots ranging from tiny mountainside seeps to bogs stretching as far as the eye can see. The cranberry fruits are borne on trailing woody vines and found nestled among green mosses in these bogs; picking just a few handfuls can take hours.

Can you eat high bush cranberry?