Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Origins of Fruits and Vegetables" video.

  1. 1:11 Eh, regarding blueberries... There's a difference between vaccinium corymbosum and vaccinium myrtillus... Yes, vaccinium corymbosum is native to North America only, however vaccinium myrtillus is common in Europe and all the way from Greenland in the west to Siberia in the east. Vaccinium myrtillus was likely a part of the diet of Europeans already during the ice age... I have no idea about when cultivation started though...
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  2. 1:11 Eh, regarding blueberries... There's a difference between vaccinium corymbosum and vaccinium myrtillus... Yes, vaccinium corymbosum is native to North America only, however vaccinium myrtillus is common in Europe and all the way from Greenland in the west to Siberia in the east.
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  3.  @steinarlaumann3840  I just looked it up. Apparently we kind of do. Not the native plant, but a hybrid between the European and the US variant.
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