About Blueberry

It is a popular fruit the world over, which is why blueberry cultivation spread from the US to many other countries. The blueberry bush is native to North America. Technically, the blueberry is a flowering plant. It belongs to the Vaccinium genus and the Cyanococcus section. According to their sizes the blueberry plants are divided into two sections. The first is the wild blueberry or the "low bush blueberries". The second section is that of the "high bush blueberry". The average height of any blueberry bush is about 10 cm to 4 m. The leaves can be either deciduous or evergreen. The blueberry bush starts bearing fruits in late April and this continues till the month of June. The best quality of these berries are seen in July, which is the National Blueberry Month in nations like United States of America and Germany The diameter of a blueberry is about 5 to 16 mm. There is a flared up crown at the end of the fruit. The blueberry at the initial period of its growth is greenish in color. Tasting such a greenish berry is not very advisable as the berry tends to be very sour and sticky on the inside.

The berry then bears a reddish-purple kind of shade. The blueberries upon ripening, turn into a shade of indigo and also taste sweet, along with a slight tinge of sourness. By the end of June and beginning of July you can finally relish the blueberry.