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29.09.2009 - 22:17 |  Looduskalender
Photo: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis
 
Crowberry.
 
 
Crowberry
Harilik kukemari 
 
 
 
The evergreen dwarf bushes of the crowberry often grow together with heather in dry pine woodlands, moors, and bog forests as well as drier forests. It isn’t very widely known. The black and shiny, smallish berries – the size of a cowberry – are botanically drupes. A berry contains six to nine triangular seeds with a hard shell. The taste is rather bland and the berries colour the mouth blue on eating. Freezing improves the taste. The vitamin-rich berries can be preserved in water, like cranberries.
Sometimes a plant has plenty of berries, and the plant beside it none at all. The crowberry is dioecious, that is, with separate male and female flowers, so it is quite natural that one plant only has female flowers and another male ones. So on some plants there will never be berries, but without male plants a female plant wouldn’t bear fruit either.
In northern Estonia a subspecies of crowberry can be found with bisexual flowers, with both stamens and pistil.

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