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| 24th May 2009, Scotland. | Photo: © Brent Clarkson |
| Young leaves are brownish red and bolt upright. It is also possible that they are instead infected with the fungal infection called Cowberry Redleaf, where the upper surface is red and the lower covered in a white powder bearing spores (although this isn't evident in the photos), and which also infects a number of other members of the Heather Family. |
| 8th June 2009, Cairngorms, Scotland. | Photo: © Derek Mayes |
| 24th May 2009, Scotland. | Photo: © Brent Clarkson |
| Established leaves dark green, with few herringbone-pattern veins. Leaves curled backwards, margins slightly in-rolled. Flowers in bunches drooping downwards, un-opened ones reddish with white patches, opened ones the reverse. |
| 24th May 2009, Scotland. | Photo: © Brent Clarkson |
| Flowers more open than are those of Bilberry, tubular shape with five short slits with petals out-curled. A single stamen protruding only slightly. |
| 24th May 2009, Scotland. | Photo: © Brent Clarkson |
| Flowers have five short red sepals. |
| 30th July 2009, Cairngorms, Scotland. | Photo: © Derek Mayes |
| Ripe berries red and spherical. |
| 30th July 2009, Cairngorms, Scotland. | Photo: © Derek Mayes |
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Easily confused with : Bearberry Hybridises with : Bilberry, the hybrid being called Hybrid Billbery or (Vaccinium × Intermedium). The hybrid has darker leaves and is evergreen, whereas Bilberry is deciduous and Cowberry evergreen. It is very rare and seems to now only grow in the Cannock Chase area.
No relation to : Cow Parsnip, ANY TEXT GOES HERE |
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