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Scientific Name: Vaccinium bracteatum Thunb. var. chinense (Lodd.) W. Y. Chun ex Sleumer
Common Name: Don Blue Berry Chinese Name: ¤p¸¯Q¶º¾ð Plant Family Name: Ericaceae Habit: Evergreen shrub or small tree Flowering Period: June to August Localities: Aberdeen, Repulse Bay, Victoria Peak, Tai Mo Shan, Ma On Shan, Castle Peak, Lantau Peak Don Blue Berry is about 1.5 to 4 m tall, much branched. Branchlets are puberulent, becoming glabrous in age. Leaves are alternate, nearly leathery, lanceolate-elliptic. Leaf is about 1.1 to 4.5 cm long, and 0.5 to 2.5 cm wide. Apex is acuminate, base is cuneate, both sides of leaf are glabrous, margin is serrulate. Inflorescences is racemose, terminal or axillary. Corolla is white in color, tubular-urceolate in shape and 5-lobed. The berries are globose with diameter 6 to 7 mm. Outside Hong Kong, the species is also distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian. |
