Fresh lingonberries can be refrigerated for 8-12 weeks, or frozen and kept for several years. Definitely a superfood! They also store well, similar to cranberries.
Lingonberries have a very high level of antioxidants, vitamin A, C, B1, B2, B3, potassium, calcium, magnesium and phosphorus. Fruit is harvested from August through September, heralding the beginning of fall. Small white or pink flowers are produced in early summer, followed by dark red fruits similar in appearance to cranberries but smaller. In winter the foliage turns a metallic mahogany color.
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Plants grow best in moist, peaty, acidic soil in full sun, and are small, ranging from 4 to 12 inches tall, with dark green, evergreen foliage. Unfortunately, lingonberry does not grow well in Nebraska gardens, since it does not like the high pH clay soil, hot summers or dry conditions that typify the Great Plains, but we can still enjoy the fruit of others harvest. Lingonberry's wide native distribution across Europe's northern hemisphere has led to a dizzying collection of common names, including cowberry, foxberry, wolf berry, whortleberry, moss cranberry, dry ground cranberry, rock cranberries, mountain cranberry, mountain bilberry, partridgeberry, whimberry, red whortleberry, alpine cranberry or simply lingon or lingen.īotanically it's known as Vaccinium vitis-idaea, and is now also grown in North America from Massachusetts to Labrabor, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska and British Columbia. But if you're of Swedish descent, or any of the Nordic or Baltic countries of northern Europe, then lingonberries may be an essential part of your holiday cooking.
Have you ever heard of a whortleberry? Or cowberry? If not, then maybe you've heard of lingonberry, a lesser-known, in the United States at least, relative of blueberry and cranberry, from the genus Vaccinium. Submitted by Sarah Browning, UNL Extension Educator
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