red berries :)
Seen in the forest, when I was looking for mushrooms :)
Our Daily Challenge - theme: "Berries"
Lingonberry and also called cowberry, foxberry, mountain cranberry, red whortleberry, lowbush cranberry, mountain bilberry – is a small evergreen shrub in the flowering plant family Ericaceae that bears edible fruit.
It is seldom cultivated, but the fruits are commonly collected in the wild. The native habitat is the circumboreal forests of northern Eurasia and North America, extending from temperate into subarctic climates.
Lingonberries collected in the wild are a popular fruit in northern, central and eastern Europe. The berries are quite tart, so they are almost always cooked and sweetened before eating in the form of lingonberry jam, compote, juice, or syrup. The raw fruits are also frequently simply mashed with sugar, which preserves most of their nutrients and flavor and even enables storing them at room temperature (in closed but not necessarily sealed containers). Lingonberries served this way or as compote often accompany game meats and liver dishes.
Lingonberries are an important food for bears and foxes. Their fruits contain plentiful organic acids, vitamin C, provitamin A (as beta carotene), B vitamins (B1, B2, B3), and the elements potassium, calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus. They are also used in herbal medicine.
Latin name: Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Polish name: borówka brusznica
red berries :)
Seen in the forest, when I was looking for mushrooms :)
Our Daily Challenge - theme: "Berries"
Lingonberry and also called cowberry, foxberry, mountain cranberry, red whortleberry, lowbush cranberry, mountain bilberry – is a small evergreen shrub in the flowering plant family Ericaceae that bears edible fruit.
It is seldom cultivated, but the fruits are commonly collected in the wild. The native habitat is the circumboreal forests of northern Eurasia and North America, extending from temperate into subarctic climates.
Lingonberries collected in the wild are a popular fruit in northern, central and eastern Europe. The berries are quite tart, so they are almost always cooked and sweetened before eating in the form of lingonberry jam, compote, juice, or syrup. The raw fruits are also frequently simply mashed with sugar, which preserves most of their nutrients and flavor and even enables storing them at room temperature (in closed but not necessarily sealed containers). Lingonberries served this way or as compote often accompany game meats and liver dishes.
Lingonberries are an important food for bears and foxes. Their fruits contain plentiful organic acids, vitamin C, provitamin A (as beta carotene), B vitamins (B1, B2, B3), and the elements potassium, calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus. They are also used in herbal medicine.
Latin name: Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Polish name: borówka brusznica