Vaccinium vitis-idaea, Lingonberry, Foxberry, Northern Mountain Cranberry

Vaccinium vitis-idaea, Lingonberry, Foxberry, Northern Mountain Cranberry is a circumboreal northern and arctic species, with little flavor, but becoming more acidic and sour after a frost. Thoreau sweetened and cooked the berries to make a desert. In Siberia, indigenous groups kept the fruits in water over winter to eat through to the following spring.

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