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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Title: Re: [NAFEX] bilberry/ v. myrtillus

Two possibles.  I procured seed of V. myrtillus for Fall Creek Nursery several years ago and they may have plants by now, though you'd have to ask as the species isn't listed.  http://www.fallcreeknursery.com/home.html

The other would be the National Clonal Germplasm Repository at Corvallis, OR. where the Vaccinium collection is kept.  You MIGHT be able to get a tissue cultured plant, or at least some seed.
> -Lon Rombough
Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at http://www.bunchgrapes.com

From: "del stubbs" <pinewoodel@hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 04:02:36 +0000
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [NAFEX] bilberry/ v. myrtillus

> I am looking into vaccinium myrtillus for a relative  - who at age 48 has 
> suddenly found herself going blind from a rare form of retinal degeneration. 
> Her post surgery prognosis by the eye surgeon is basically "good luck", so, 
> though she is a science teacher,  she now finds herself persuing 
> 'alternative' forms of healing .
> Bilberry keeps coming up. Some sites call it a huckleberry, one foot tall; 
> but the huckleberries I remember were 4' high. Even if it has no healing 
> properties, it would make good jam.        Anyone know where I could buy 
> some plants?     Del,   here's a website on bilberry         
> http://www.stevenfoster.com/education/monograph/bilberry.html
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> Del Stubbs  www.pinewoodforge.com  ag zone2/3