name: Cascade Huckleberry

flavor_db_name_variants: cascade huckleberry

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Cascade huckleberry

id: 220

name_scientific: Vaccinium deliciosum

description: Vaccinium deliciosum is a species of bilberry known by the common names Cascade bilberry, Cascade blueberry, and blueleaf huckleberry. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to Idaho to northern California, where it grows at elevations of 600 to 2000 meters in subalpine and alpine climates. Its habitat includes coniferous forests and meadows. This is a rhizomatous shrub taking a clumpy, matted form, its tangling stem rooting where its nodes touch moist substrate. It may form expansive colonies. The new green twigs are hairless and waxy. The deciduous leaves are alternately arranged. The thin oval leaf blades are up to 5 centimeters long. The edges are mostly smooth but may be serrated near the ends. Solitary flowers occur in the leaf axils. Each is 6 or 7 millimeters long, widely urn-shaped to rounded, and pale pink in color. The fruit is a waxy blue or reddish berry which may be over a centimeter wide. It is said to be particularly tasty.

itis_id: 23591

wikipedia_id: Vaccinium deliciosum

picture_file_name: 220.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 113038

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:28:59.000Z

legacy_id: 235

food_group: Fruits

food_subgroup: Berries

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:26.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:19.000Z

creator_id: null

updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 190531

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00220