Empetrum nigrum

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Empetrum nigrum n

  1. A taxonomic species within the family Ericaceae – black crowberry, mossberry, native to arctic lands.
    • 1905, Maude Gridley Peterson, How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants When Not in Flower by Means of Fruit and Leaf‎[1] (in English), Macmillan, page 202:
      Black crowberry. Empetrum nigrum. Crowberry Family. Fruit. — The black drupe is berrylike, globular, and incloses six to nine seedlike nutlets with a seed in each. The calyx is at the base and the stigma is at the apex. The drupes are solitary in the leaf axils. They are juicy, acid, edible, and serve as food for the Arctic birds.

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