Cranberry

Cranberries are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs or trailing vines in a subgenus of Vaccinium, low, creeping plants up to 2 meters long and 5 to 20 centimeters in height, with slender, not thickly woody stems, small evergreen leaves and dark pink flowers; the fruit is a berry larger than the plant's leaves, initially light green and turning red when ripe, edible but with an acidic taste. In Britain, cranberry usually refers to the native species Vaccinium oxycoccos, cultivated across central and northern Europe, while in North America it usually refers to Vaccinium macrocarpon, cultivated throughout the northern United States, Canada and Chile; in 2020, the United States, Canada and Chile together accounted for 97 percent of world cranberry production.