Vaccinium calycinum var. calycinum x V. dentatum var. lanceolatum (O`ahu type). Hawai`i, O`ahu, Wai`anae Mountains, Palikea area. Plant 4.

An average leaf on this plant is 3.2 cm long and 1.8 cm wide.

 

Vaccinium calycinum Smith var. calycinum

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V. dentatum Smith var. lanceolatum (A. Gray) Skottsberg (O`ahu type)

 

Hawaiian names: `ōhelo

Family: Ericaceae (the heath family)

Native.

 

 

Vaccinium is occasional to fairly common in the mesic to wet forests and shrublands of the Palikea area. The majority – perhaps more than 80% or 90% – of these Vaccinium plants look to me like V. calycinum var. calycinum x V. dentatum var. lanceolatum (O`ahu type) hybrids, with the remainder looking like pure V. calycinum var. calycinum or pure V. dentatum var. lanceolatum (O`ahu type).

 

A plant of V. calycinum var. calycinum from the Palikea area:

www.flickr.com/photos/53193377@N02/7047349381/in/photostream

www.flickr.com/photos/53193377@N02/6901246918/in/photostream

www.flickr.com/photos/53193377@N02/7047330049/in/photostream

www.flickr.com/photos/53193377@N02/7047322661/in/photostream

 

A plant of V. dentatum var. lanceolatum (O`ahu type) from the Palikea area:

www.flickr.com/photos/53193377@N02/6906756612/in/photostream

www.flickr.com/photos/53193377@N02/7052842413/in/photostream

www.flickr.com/photos/53193377@N02/6906743514/in/photostream

www.flickr.com/photos/53193377@N02/6906737928/in/photostream

 

An album containing all of my photographs of Vaccinium plants in the Palikea area - the parental taxa V. calycinum var. calycinum and V. dentatum var. lanceolatum (O`ahu type), and the V. calycinum var. calycinum x V. dentatum var. lanceolatum (O`ahu type) hybrids:

www.flickr.com/photos/53193377@N02/sets/72157630431383952/

 

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