name: Red Huckleberry

flavor_db_name_variants: red huckleberry

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Red huckleberry

id: 223

name_scientific: Vaccinium parvifolium

description: Red Huckleberry (Vaccinium parvifolium) is a species of Vaccinium native to the western North America, where it is common in forests from southeastern Alaska and British Columbia south through western Washington and Oregon to central California. In the Oregon Coast Range, it is the most common Vaccinium. It occurs mostly at low to middle elevations in soil enriched by decaying wood and on rotten logs, from sea level up to 1,820-metre . The fruit is an edible red to orange berry 6-millimetre (0.24 in) to 10-millimetre (0.39 in) in diameter.

itis_id: 23612

wikipedia_id: Vaccinium parvifolium

picture_file_name: 223.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 34744

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:33:56.000Z

legacy_id: 238

food_group: Fruits

food_subgroup: Berries

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:27.000Z

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

creator_id: null

updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 180766

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00223