What is Vaccinium myrtillus?
Vaccinium myrtillus is a species of the Vaccinium sect. Myrtillus section.
Vaccinium myrtillus is also known as European blueberry, bilberry, common bilberry, blue whortleberry, blaeberry, wimberry, and whortleberry, hurtleberry, myrtleberry, wimberry, whinberry, winberry, fraughan.
What does Vaccinium myrtillus contain?
fruit – known as a bilberry (1)
lignins (1)
triterpenes (1)
has dark red juice that can stain your hand (1)
the bilberry fruit contains anthocyanins (2)
What does Vaccinium myrtillus do?
produce lignins (1)
Resources
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccinium_myrtillus
2. ChatGPT 4, 6/11/2023, “When you say bilberry, are you referring to the whole plant or extract, or what?”
