Lingonberries in full flower
Photo: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis
Lingonberry.
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Lingonberry, cowberry |
Pohl
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Vaccinum vitis-idaea |
Pine forests with sparse stands of trees make the best lingonberry picking places and this year there have been neither frosts nor drought in the forest. The plants are lush, there are masses of beautiful flowers and hopes of a good berry crop.
The rhizome of the lingonberry plant can actually live for hundreds of years – the older parts decay, but side shoots grow and send new, vital stems above ground. The stems and leaves last for three – five years. In the acid humus of dry boreal forests the dwarf bushes of the lingonberry need help from fungi to obtain their supply of nutrients – Ascomycetes species are their partners in this.
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