What is Vaccinium arboreum?
{{Taxobox | name = ''Vaccinium arboreum'' | image = Vaccinium arboreum USDA.jpg | image_width = 240px | image_caption = Leaves and immature fruit | regnum = [[Plant]]ae | divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]] | classis = [[Magnoliopsida]] | ordo = [[Ericales]] | familia = [[Ericaceae]] | genus = ''[[Vaccinium]]'' | species = '''''V. arboreum''''' | binomial = ''Vaccinium arboreum'' | binomial_authority = [[Humphry Marshall|Marshall]] }} '''''Vaccinium arboreum''''' (also called '''sparkleberry''' or '''farkleberry''') is a species of [[Vaccinium]] native to south-eastern [[United States]]. They are usually found in southern [[Virginia]] west to southeastern [[Missouri]], and south to [[Florida]] and eastern [[Texas]]. Vaccinium arboreum is a [[shrub]] (rarely a small [[tree]]) growing to 3-5 [[metre]]s (sometimes up to 9 metres) tall. The [[leaf|leaves]] are [[evergreen]] in the south of the range, but [[deciduous]] farther north where [[winter]]s are colder. They are oval-elliptic with an acute [[apex]], 3-7 [[metre|cm]] long and 2-4 cm broad, with a smooth or very finely toothed margin. The [[flower]]s are white, bell-shaped, 3-4 [[metre|mm]] in [[diameter]], with a five-lobed corolla, produced in [[raceme]]s up to 5 cm long. The [[fruit]] is a round dry berry about 6 mm diameter, green at first, black when ripe, edible but bitter and tough. ==References== *[http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?40984 Germplasm Resources Information Network: ''Vaccinium arboreum''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001209023500/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?40984 |date=2000-12-09 }} *[http://www.missouriplants.com/Whitealt/Vaccineum_arboreum_page.html Missouriplants: ''Vaccinium arboreum''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070521190225/http://www.missouriplants.com/Whitealt/Vaccineum_arboreum_page.html |date=2007-05-21 }} *[http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=265 Virginia Tech Dendrology: ''Vaccinium arboreum''] {{Webarchive|u