Vaccinium vitis-idaea ‘Red Candy’
Vaccinium vitis-idaea 'Red Candy' is a compact lingonberry or partridgeberry with white flowers and tasty, tart red fruit.
Vaccinium vitis-idaea ‘Red Candy’ lets you have your pie and eat it too! This little evergreen shrub is very strong, very compact, and very small reaching just 12 inches tall and wide. But don’t let its size fool you as it produces masses of tasty, tart lingonberries that can be used for jams, pies and other treats. White flowers appear in late spring followed by the red berries that can stay on the shrub over winter. Awesome as a ground cover and in a container for ornamental purposes. The lingonberry is a popular wild harvested fruit in Scandinavia and Newfoundland where they are called partridgeberries. The breeder of this cultivar suggests zone 5 hardiness but this species is hardy to zone 2 so we think ‘Red Candy’ should be just fine in cold climates.
Common Name: Lingonberry
Family: Ericaceae (The Heath Family)
Zone Hardiness: 2-9
Light: Part Shade, Full Shade, Part Sun
Height: 8-12"
Width: 8-12"
Primary Bloom Colour: White/Cream
Secondary Bloom Colour: Pink
Bloom Time: Late Spring
Foliage Colour: Good Fall Colour, Green, Burgundy/Red/Purple
Class: Evergreen
Type: Shrub
Soil Moisture: Average, Moist
Stem Colour:
Fragrance: No
Berries: Red
Benefits: Bees
Deer Resistant: Yes
BC Native: Yes
Native Habitat: A circumboreal species of wet to dry forests, bogs and tundra from lowland to alpine zones occurring right across Canada. Common in northern BC, less so in southern BC.
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