shrub from Grouse Mountain

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  1. Robert Flogaus-Faust

    Robert Flogaus-Faust Active Member 10 Years

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    I found quite a lot of specimens of this fairly tall shrub when I walked down from Grouse Mountain on May 30, 2006. Is this oval-leaved blueberry (Vaccinium ovalifolium) or is there an alternative suggestion?
     

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    Daniel Mosquin Paragon of Plants UBC Botanical Garden Forums Administrator Forums Moderator 10 Years

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    Vaccinium alaskaense? This species blooms after leaves develop. Vaccinium ovalifolium blooms before leaves develop.
     
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    Robert Flogaus-Faust Active Member 10 Years

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    Thank you very much! This should really be Vaccinium alaskaense, also because of the exserted style and the form and the color of the flowers. I have got another blueberry image which needs identification but I'll put that into a new thread because it is not from Grouse Mountain and possibly a different species.
     
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    Ron B Paragon of Plants 10 Years

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    Anything from Grouse Mountain should really be a grouseberry, too.

    Not that I'm grousing here, mind you.
     
  5. Robert Flogaus-Faust

    Robert Flogaus-Faust Active Member 10 Years

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    Hi Ron:
    It cannot be because grouseberry should be Vaccinium scoparium. This should not grow near the coast and it does not look like the shrub I took the picture of. Vaccinium scoparium should be a small shrub with green or yellowish green branches and serrulate leave margins. I haven't encountered this species yet but the books are sufficiently clear about this.
     
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    Ron B Paragon of Plants 10 Years

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    I was joking.
     
  7. Robert Flogaus-Faust

    Robert Flogaus-Faust Active Member 10 Years

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    still no grouseberry

    I know, of course, that your remarks were intended as a joke but I just wanted to make sure that readers of this forum also know that this shrub isn't grouseberry. Which I did. :-)
     

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