[Resolved] Blueberries on Heath

[Jackard]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericaceae

[DasGuntLord01]

Explain.

[Cookie]

Blueberries thrive best in scrub ground where trees do not. Perhaps he is suggesting they should be found on heath instead of in forest.

Around here the kids get a March break from school and the teenagers go out and set grassfires. It gets to be quite an exciting weekend with the clouds of thick smoke suddenly rising up from the hills. One minute nothing, and the next minute you look up and a hundred yard swathe of red flames is raging above you. The fires kill the scrub birches and pines, do no harm to the grass and ensure an excellent blueberry meadow in a year or two. Of course it makes it harder to find a good Christmas tree.... but the buckets of blueberries are worth it.

My point is that blueberries would not grow in a deeply shaded coniferous forest. They need open ground with much sun.

[burgingham]

Well, but that would counter their purpose in game to serve as newbie food for those who just wilderness spawned. I am not saying blueberries should not also grow on grassland, but it might be wise to leave them in forests as well or introduce some kind of herb or fruit which serves a similar purpose.

[kaka]

introduce some kind of herb or fruit which serves a similar purpose.

Woodland strawberries, raspberries, polypodium vulgare, peas, Jorb's Tears and liquorice roots.

[Jackard]

I thought this would be simple enough to grasp but apparently not. Nowhere did I suggest removing them from woodland. All I'm suggesting is that blueberries grow on heathland in addition to woodland.

[kaka]

I think *most* of us got that, though. ;)

[Alamarian]

I thought this would be simple enough to grasp but apparently not. Nowhere did I suggest removing them from woodland. All I'm suggesting is that blueberries grow on heathland in addition to woodland.

Assuming people are smart and reasonable will get you nowhere. You gotta head that off in the first post.