(1) Vaccinium myrtillus is a member of the Ericaceae family, and is also known as European blueberry, huckleberry, whortleberry , or blueberry.(2) The most popular plant worn as a clan emblem was the red whortleberry .(3) On overcast afternoons, all alone in the drizzle, my mother, carrying a basket (stained blue on the inside by somebody's whortleberries ), would set out on a long collecting tour.(4) Think of David Bellamy, a man only complete when rummaging among beetles and whortleberries , and who encases his head in a tangled, bushy forest.(5) Clustered among the turning leaves were bilberries, cranberries, bog whortleberries , cloudberries and a dozen others, edible and poisonous.
