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Small black blueberry
Conservation status
Secure  (NatureServe)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Ericales
Family:	Ericaceae
Genus:	Vaccinium
Species:	V. tenellum
Binomial name
Vaccinium tenellum Aiton
Synonyms
Cyanococcus tenellus (Aiton) Small

Vaccinium tenellum, the small black blueberry is a plant species native to the southeastern United States from southeastern Mississippi to northern Florida to southern Virginia. It grows in forests and in shrubby areas at elevations up to 200 m.

Vaccinium tenellum is a deciduous shrub up to 80 cm tall, often forming large colonies. Leaves are elliptic, up to 4 cm long. Flowers are white or pale pink, cylindrical, up to 10 mm long. Fruits are very dark blue, almost black, about 7 mm across. Cytology is 2n = 24.

References

1. Tropicos
2. ^ Flora of North America v 8 p 528
3. Aiton, William. 1789. Hortus Kewensis 2: 12.
4. Small, John Kunkel. 1933. Manual of the Southeastern Flora 1014, 1506.
5. Wunderlin, R. P. 1998. Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida i–x, 1–806. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
6. Radford, A. E., H. E. Ahles & C. R. Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas i–lxi, 1–1183. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill.
7. Old Dominion University plant site
8. Redpath, Lauren E.; Aryal, Rishi; Lynch, Nathan; Spencer, Jessica A.; Hulse-Kemp, Amanda M.; Ballington, James R.; Green, Jaimie; Bassil, Nahla; Hummer, Kim; Ranney, Thomas; Ashrafi, Hamid (2022). "Nuclear DNA contents and ploidy levels of North American Vaccinium species and interspecific hybrids". Scientia Horticulturae. 297. Elsevier BV: 110955. doi:10.1016/j.scienta.2022.110955. ISSN 0304-4238.

External links

• Media related to Vaccinium tenellum at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Vaccinium tenellum at Wikispecies

v t e Blueberries
Species	Vaccinium angustifolium Vaccinium boreale Vaccinium caesariense Vaccinium corymbosum Vaccinium darrowii Vaccinium elliottii Vaccinium fuscatum Vaccinium hirsutum Vaccinium koreanum Vaccinium meridionale Vaccinium myrsinites Vaccinium myrtilloides Vaccinium pallidum Vaccinium tenellum Vaccinium virgatum
General topics	Blueberry
As food	Bilberry Blåbärssoppa Blueberry pie Blueberry sauce
See also	Blueberry tea
Category: Blueberries

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