急……求blueberry 的英文介绍

A blueberry is a small dark blue fruit that is found in North America.Blueberries are usually cooked before they are eaten.
Blueberries are flowering plants of the genus Vaccinium with dark-blue,-purple or black berries.Species in the section Cyanococcus are the most common fruits sold as "blueberries" and are mainly native to North America[1].They are usually erect but sometimes prostrate shrubs varying in size from 10 cm tall to 4 m tall.In commercial blueberry production,smaller species are known as "lowbush blueberries" (synonymous with "wild"),and the larger species as "highbush blueberries".The leaves can be either deciduous or evergreen,ovate to lanceolate,and from 1–8 cm long and 0.5–3.5 cm broad.The flowers are bell-shaped,white,pale pink or red,sometimes tinged greenish.
The fruit is a false berry 5–16 mm diameter with a flared crown at the end; they are pale greenish at first,then reddish-purple,and finally blue on ripening.They have a sweet taste when mature,with variable acidity.Blueberry bushes typically bear fruit from May through June though fruiting times are affected by local conditions such as altitude and latitude.
Origins
The genus Vaccinium has a circumpolar distribution with species in North America,Europe and Asia.
Many commercially sold species whose English common names include "blueberry" are currently classified in section Cyanococcus of the genus Vaccinium and come predominantly from North America.Several other plants of the genus Vaccinium also produce blue berries such as the predominantly European bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus),which in many languages has a name that means "blueberry" in English.See the Identification section for more information.
Many North American native species of blueberries are now also commercially grown in the Southern Hemisphere in Australia,New Zealand and South American countries.
Growing seasons
Blueberry production in North America typically starts in mid-May (in Florida) and ends in September,when some fruit is held over in controlled-atmosphere storage in Oregon,Washington,and Canada.(Gaskell,2006).
Sources give different periods for the growing season in the southern hemisphere.According to the University of California Extension Service,Chile,New Zealand and Argentina begin harvesting in the winter and continue till mid-March,when Chilean blueberries are held over in controlled-atmosphere storage for about six weeks."As a result,blueberries reach annual peak prices in mid-April."(Gaskell,2006)
In Chile,San Jose Farms,which says (according to its Web site) that it is one of the oldest blueberry producers in the country (it started in the early 1990s),states that its harvest season starts in November and continues through March.(San Jose,n.d.)
In Argentina:"The marketing year (MY) for blueberries begins in September and ends in February," according to a U.S.Department of Agriculture report.[15] Blueberries grow in April & May.