Evergreen Huckleberry Shrub

Leaves are perennial alternately arranged distinctly 2 ranked simple and ovate in shape. Surprisingly it will also shear into a dense formal hedge.

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Evergreen huckleberry shrub

The new growth is bronze and the berries are blue to black. Description edit. The evergreen huckleberry is a small evergreen shrub with edible berries that serve as a native food source.

Use evergreen huckleberry in informal groupings or as a natural low screen. Evergreen huckleberry berries vaccinium ovatum. An upright evergreen broad leaved shrub that typically grows 2 3 tall in the sun but up to 10 in height if grown in full shade.

It is native to the coastal mountain ranges. Evergreen huckleberry is found on the west side of the cascade mountains from british columbia to california. Often found sprouting from nurse logs and growing in conjunction with red huckleberry vaccinium parvifolium.

New leaves are bronze to red in color and mature into a glossy green through the summer months. The evergreen huckleberry vaccinium ovatum also called the california huckleberry is a broad leaf evergreen shrub that grows 1 1 2 to 15 feet tall. Vaccinium ovatum is a small to medium sized evergreen shrub native to the western pacific coast of the united states and coastal british columbia.

1 83 meters plant width spread. Does not transplant well but can be grown easily from smaller. This remarkable evergreen native shrub is valuable in the landscape.

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