Blueberries are a group of flowering plants in the genus Vaccinium, sect. Cyanococcus. The species are native to North America and eastern Asia. They are shrubs varying in size from 10 cm tall to 4 m tall; the smaller species are known as 'lowbush blueberries', and the larger species as 'highbush blueberries'. The leaves can be either deciduous or evergreen, ovate to lanceolate, and from 1-8 cm long and 0.5-3.5 cm broad. The flowers are bell-shaped, white, pale pink or red, sometimes tinged greenish. The fruit is a berry 5-16 mm diameter with a flared 'crown' at the end; they are pale greenish at first, then reddish-purple, and finally dark purple on ripening. They have a sweet taste when mature, with variable acidity. The blueberry season typically runs from May to October, peaking in July. All the species whose common names in English include 'blueberry' are currently classified in section Cyanococcus of the genus Vaccinium. Other sections in the genus, native to other parts of the world including Europe, include other wild shrubs producing edible berries such as cranberries, bilberries and cowberries. Many of these have blue berries and are very similar in use and taste to blueberries. Furthermore their names in languages other than English often translate as 'blueberry', e.g. Scots Blaeberry and Norwegian Blbr. There is thus considerable scope for confusion. This page, however, deals only with the plants called 'blueberry' in English, i.e. section Cyanococcus of the genus. Although blueberries are native to North America, they are now grown also in Australia, New Zea
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A muffin is a bread- or cake-like baked good. Muffins resemble cupcakes: they have cylindrical bases, rounded conical tops, and are usually sweet, although savory varieties (such as cornbread muffins) also exist. They generally fit in the palm of an adult hand, and are intended to be consumed by an individual in a single sitting. Earlier in the history of the term, muffin was used by British English-speakers to refer to a different baked good, the smaller, disk-shaped English muffin, although in contemporary usage, the principal meaning of muffin for most speakers on both sides of the Atlantic is the larger, cupcake-shaped baked good. In modern practice, muffins often have a 'topping' baked in, such as blueberries or chocolate chips. Contents 1 Early history 2 Modern history 3 Types of muffins 3.1 English Muffin 3.2 Corn Muffin
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