Highbush

The July and November 2001 issues carried conflicting reader reports about "highbush" cranberries ( "Cranberry Catharsis" and "Learning to Love Highbush Cranberries"). ❋ By Sam Thayer (2010)

to the wiseacre who suggested that we just buy some from the grocery store, i submitted that our local stores only have 'highbush' blueberries available for purchase, a berry which in my esteemed and well-qualified berry-opinion pales dramatically in comparison to the flavour and character of the 'lowbush', or wild blueberry. ❋ Unknown (2008)

•Today, forestry, cranberries, highbush blueberries, and residential developments are major economic pursuits in the Pine Barrens. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The southern highbush varieties, Sunshine Blue and Misty, do well in much of California. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The seeded pulp of the highbush cranberry can be used interchangeably with the pulp of the regular cranberry in any recipe. ❋ Bryanna Clark Grogan (2007)

If you have ever smelled something reminiscent of stinky socks on a stroll through the bush, you are likely very close to a good patch of highbush cranberries. ❋ Bryanna Clark Grogan (2007)

Dominant shrubs include bayberry, black cherry, highbush blueberry, shadbush, poison ivy and European bittersweet. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Common shrubs include bayberry, highbush blueberry, and shadbush. ❋ Unknown (2007)

With Maine wild blueberries, none of those flavorless marble-sized highbush berries, thank you. ❋ Jhetley (2006)

V. angustifolium and corymbosum are weedy pioneers in burned fields, and their fruits were gathered from the wild until the 1920s, when the first selected “highbush” corymbosum plants were developed in New Jersey. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

This mass slopes down to thickets of alder, red dogwood, haw, highbush cranberry, and honeysuckle, with wide beds of goldenrod or purple asters shading off into the spangled meadows wherever the copses open up into grassy glades. ❋ Frederick Philip Grove (N/A)

Many landscapers have skipped burning bush and started using alternatives such as red chokeberry, native winterberry, silky dogwood or native highbush blueberry. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Brockton General will pair roasted duck from Mount Forest with highbush cranberry and pear compote. ❋ Jennifer Bain (2011)

Fifty years later, University of Florida researchers began developing Florida-friendly varieties of highbush berries, the term generally used for cultivated blueberries. ❋ The Huffington Post News Editors (2011)

In the meantime, people could do worse than eat highbush blueberries. ❋ Unknown (2011)