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    Bearberries are three species of dwarf shrubs in the genus Arctostaphylos. Unlike the other species of Arctostaphylos (see manzanita), they are adapted...
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    the fruit is a red berry. One of several related species referred to as bearberry, its specific epithet uva-ursi means "grape of the bear" in Latin, similar...
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  • Arctostaphylos alpina, alpine bearberry Arctostaphylos rubra, red fruit bearberry Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, common bearberry Bearberry may also refer to: Arbutus...
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    Arctous alpina (syn. Arctostaphylos alpina), the alpine bearberry, mountain bearberry or black bearberry, is a dwarf shrub in the heather family Ericaceae....
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  • Bearberry Bearberry is an unincorporated community in central Alberta in Mountain View County, located 18 kilometres (11 mi) west of Highway 22, 107 kilometres...
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  • Bearberry Creek is a stream in Alberta, Canada. The stream's name comes from the Cree Indians of the area, who harvested bearberries near its banks. List...
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    Cotoneaster dammeri, the bearberry cotoneaster, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Cotoneaster, belonging to the family Rosaceae, native to...
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    Lonicera involucrata, the bearberry honeysuckle, bracted honeysuckle, twinberry honeysuckle, Californian Honeysuckle, twin-berry, or black twinberry,...
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  • Arctostaphylos, the manzanitas and bearberries. Common names include red fruit bearberry, alpine bearberry, arctic bearberry, red manzanita, and ravenberry...
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    naturally present in the leaves and bark of a variety of plants, notably the bearberry plant, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi. Utilized as a biosynthetic active ingredient...
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    Aloe (Aloe) Aralia (Angelica Tree, Hercules' Club) * Arctostaphylos (Bearberry, Manzanita) * Aronia (Chokeberry) Artemisia (Sagebrush) Aucuba (Aucuba)...
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    smoking mixtures, known as kinnikinnick, to improve the taste of the bearberry leaf. Alder is illustrated in the coat of arms for the Austrian town of...
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    Vaccinium erythrocarpum, commonly known as southern mountain cranberry or bearberry, more rarely as mountain blueberry or dingleberry, is a deciduous flowering...
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    deterrimus is a mycorrhizal fungus that associates with Norway spruce and bearberry. The species is distributed in Europe, but has also found in parts of...
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    western Oregon and Washington. A. 'Emerald Carpet', A. uva-ursi (the bearberry), and other low-growing manzanitas are valuable evergreen groundcovers...
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    (especially cowberry, bilberry, Vaccinium oxycoccos or other cranberries, bearberry, crowberry, salmonberry, cloudberry or low-bush salmonberry, raspberry...
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    such as moss, heath (Ericaceae varieties such as crowberry and black bearberry), and lichen. There are two main seasons, winter and summer, in the polar...
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    Vaccinium macrocarpon, also called large cranberry, American cranberry and bearberry, is a North American species of cranberry in the subgenus Oxycoccus. The...
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  • lightening cosmetics are arbutin and kojic acid. Arbutin, often also called bearberry, can be converted by the body into hydroquinone. Kojic acid was developed...
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    species, it grows in mycorrhizal association with species of pine and bearberry. List of Leccinum species Šutara J. (1982). "Nomenclatural problems concerning...
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    Epinotia nemorivaga, the bearberry bell, is a species of moth in the family Tortricidae. It is found in Europe (from Fennoscandia and northern Russia...
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    subarctic highland meadows where dwarf willow (Salix herbacea) or alpine bearberry (Arctostaphylos alpina) are abundant. Like all species of Russula, R. emetica...
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    by the common names Wright's silktassel, quinine-bush, coffee berry, bearberry, feverbush, and grayleaf dogwood. The plant is native to northern Mexico...
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    cycle between two hosts, with the spruce serving as the primary host and bearberry (also known as kinnickinnick) serving as the secondary or alternate host...
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    close to the ground, forming tundra. An example of a dwarf shrub is the bearberry. As one moves northward, the amount of warmth available for plant growth...
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    simple phenolic structure. An example is arbutin found in the Common Bearberry Arctostaphylos uva-ursi. It has a urinary antiseptic effect. These compounds...
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    grass is also often present and burned in pipe-smoking mixtures alongside bearberry and red willow plants. The smoke from the pipe is said to carry the users...
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    chili pepper cocoa bean (cacao) cotton (long-staple species) cranberry (bearberry species) guava (common) maize (corn) papaya peanut pineapple potato squashes...
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    Chaparral honeysuckle Lonicera involucrata (Richardson) Banks ex Spreng. – bearberry honeysuckle Lonicera × italica Kütz. Lonicera japonica Thunb. – Japanese...
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  • margaritacea ~ Pearly everlasting Aquilaria sinensis Arctostaphylos uva-ursi ~ Bearberry Areca catechu dwarf Areca catechu linne Argemone mexicana Arnica species...
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