The fruit is an oblong red drupe 15 mm long and 12 mm broad, containing a single flat, white seed. Plants begin to produce fruit at approximately five years of age; when animals, including birds, eat the fruits, they deposit the seeds in another location in their droppings. Although often called "Highbush Cranberry", it is not a cranberry. The name comes from the red fruits which look superficially like cranberries, and have a similar flavor and ripen at the same time of year. The fruits, sour and rich in vitamin C, can be eaten raw or cooked into a sauce to serve with meat or game. Prefers full sun to partrial shade, fertile, moist, well – drained soil.

• HIGH BUSH CRANBERRY Viburnum Trilobum - 10+ SEEDS
• Genus - Viburnum Species - Trilobum Common name - High Bush Cranberry Other names - American Cranberrybush Viburnum, American Cranberrybush, Kalyna Pre-Treatment - Required Hardiness zones - 2 - 7 Height - 10'-20' / 3 - 6 m Spread - 5'-12' / 1.50 - 3.70 m Plant type - Shrub / Tree
• Vegetation type - Deciduous Exposure - Full Sun, Partial Sun, Partial Shade, Full Shade Growth rate - Medium Soil PH - Acidic, Neutral, Alkaline Soil type - Clay, loam, sand, well drained Water requirements - Average Landscape uses - Feature Plant, Hedges, Screening / Wind Break Germination rate - 89% Leaf / Flower color - Green / White Plant growth rate - Medium
• It is a deciduous shrub growing to 4-5 m tall. The bark is gray and rough and has a scaly texture. The stems arch and are very dense, and the twigs are a reddish-brown color. The leaves are opposite, three-lobed, 6-12 cm long and 5-10 cm broad, with a rounded base and serrated margins. They are superficially similar to many maple leaves, most easily distinguished by their somewhat wrinkled surface with impressed leaf venation.
• The flowers are white, produced in corymbs up to 13 cm diameter at the top of the stems; each corymb comprises a ring of outer sterile flowers 2-2.5 cm diameter with conspicuous petals, surrounding a center of small (5 mm), fertile flowers; the flowers are pollinated by insects.

HIGH BUSH CRANBERRY Viburnum Trilobum - 10+ SEEDS