bilberry

The same for the European bilberry and the American blueberry that is the ancestor of the cultivated blueberries.

Yeah bilberry extract has been studied in Asia since they had an increasingly myopic population.

Blueberries are far from tasteless but yes the taste of bilberry is different and stronger.

Edit: weirdly enough the Wikipedia page for the bilberry doesn't even link to the Swedish page for the same berry [2].

But bilberry looks quite the same to me -- didn't know the difference until now -- and grows in a lot more places.

You can get Bilberry spread and syrup at Ikea in the U.

TIL that the English name for them is bilberry.

Then I found that in fact it's not a blueberry but instead bilberry.

On the Bilberry front, I found a book about the vaccinium species of North America to try and identity the different huckle/blue/bilberrries around here.

It says bilberry or blueberry because what is exactly meant is not so black and white, and it may also depends on your flavour of English and French.

Today, because of this discussion, searching for some info, I found this interesting trivia observation someone blogged about: you can use bog bilberry to clean the color off your bilberry blue fingers.

> Over here in northern Europe (Sweden), what we would call a blueberry is what you would call a bilberry Thanks for pointing out the distinction.

Google says “myrtille” is the English “bilberry”, not blueberry.

"Łochinia" seems to be the bog bilberry (Vaccinium uliginosum).

Bilberry (=blueberry to me) is very flavourful.