Origins
The genus Vaccinium has a mostly circumpolar distribution with species in America, Europe and Asia, but also Africa.
Many commercially sold species with English common names including "blueberry" are currently classified in section Cyanococcus of the genus Vaccinium and come predominantly from North America. Many North American native species of blueberries are now also commercially grown in the Southern Hemisphere in Australia, New Zealand and South American countries.
Several other wild shrubs of the genus Vaccinium also produce commonly eaten blue berries, such as the predominantly European bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), that in many languages has a name that means "blueberry" in English. See the Identification section for more information.
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