Talk:Vaccinium myrtillus

name
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueberry should be merged with this article. The article is not correct. Blueberry is the name usually used in Europe when used in English and Bilberry is a name that is used in the USA. It is not used in Europe very much, unless referring to the fruit from the USA to differentiate it from the European fruit. - This is the usage I have seen - the blueberry article supports this with Scots (a dialect of English in the UK) using the term according to the article. Neither article explains adequately that a Latin binomial is not the same as different varieties of an interbreeding species - so that 2 different common names may give different information about berries that is missing from a Latin species name description. This could be added to the article.

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Already existing page
There is already a page on bilberries. Someone who knows their way around Wikipedia should propose a merger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilberry

Alec — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.9.29.136 (talk) 08:54, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

kudos
i was long perplexed by the commercial spread of blue berries that have a colorless flesh under the blue skin in yoghurt-like products. it is a great relief to find an article that clears up the different and sometimes confusing common names for two related but not similar species. i would go as far as say this article is already better than start-level on the quality scale. while the article could be more extensive on the botannical and cultivation topics, it is clear and well worded. cheers! 89.134.199.32 (talk) 14:48, 13 July 2019 (UTC).

Insert Research about improvement in brain function
I just googled blue berries because i heard about improving brain function. And there are some studies about the topic, if there is someone interested there are probably way more studies regarding this.

The findings of this preliminary study suggest that moderate-term blueberry supplementation can confer neurocognitive benefit and establish a basis for more comprehensive human trials to study preventive potential and neuronal mechanisms. Greater intakes of blueberries and strawberries were associated with slower rates of cognitive decline.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2850944/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ana.23594 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:CE:2F2A:44D6:842B:76CF:CB7E:8D95 (talk) 00:29, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
 * The first study is of a different species (and was based on a sample of nine). The second study doesn't appear to identify the species explicitly, but also appears to be a different species. As to whether the second study is worthy of being cited in Wikipedia (the first, with its minimal sample size, would appear not to be), WP:MED would presumably apply. Lavateraguy (talk) 18:36, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

Confusion section
Hello Most of this is not RS however I think the Barley Hall ref is. It's a collaboration between York Archaeological Trust, Arts Council England and VisitEngland. The link is dead so we will need  an archive. Invasive Spices (talk) 4 October 2022 (UTC)
 * The "confusion" between species is the problematic WP:OR part, for which there would be different opinions and no good sources. Zefr (talk) 17:01, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

Lignins
Hello What makes you think Bouzat is incorrect? Invasive Spices (talk) 5 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Limited study 14 years out of date. Needs a WP:SCIRS review. Zefr (talk) 16:55, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I see now that I did forget
 * Invasive Spices (talk) 5 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Invasive Spices (talk) 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Wrong picture?
I don't think the picture in this article, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yaban_mersini.jpg, is Vaccinium myrtillus. I'm not an expert but it seems to the shape of the flower end in the fruit is different, and it looks like it's growing on a taller bush, not a shrub. Also, the leaves look larger and greener. Can a botanist weigh in? 87.99.27.160 (talk) 01:24, 22 November 2023 (UTC)