Blueberry

Blueberries are a widely distributed group of perennial flowering plants bearing blue or purple berries, classified in the genus Vaccinium; commercially, both wild, or lowbush, and cultivated, or highbush, blueberries are native to North America, with highbush varieties introduced to Europe during the 1930s. Blueberry shrubs are usually prostrate and vary greatly in size, from about 10 centimeters to 4 meters in height, and in commercial production the species with small, pea-sized berries growing on low bushes are called lowbush or wild blueberries, while species with larger berries growing on taller cultivated bushes are called highbush blueberries; in 2024 Canada was the leading producer of lowbush blueberries, while the United States produced 29 percent of the world's overall supply.