[Sca-cooks] Re: Old World vs. New World Fruits

[Terry Decker]

Lingonberries are Vaccinium vitis-idaea and are found across the Northern
Hemisphere, both New and Old World.  Cranberries are V. macrocarpum and are
New World.  To confuse the issue, lingonberries are sometimes called
mountain cranberries and the term cranberry is applied to several other
members of genus Vaccinium, primarily V. oxycoccus.

Bear

> The lingonberries of Scandinavia have some similarities to cranberries
however.
>
> Simon Sinneghe
> Briaroak, Summits, An Tir