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Practical advice and information to help you with activities ranging from the use of native plants in gardening to the conservation of biodiversity.

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Links to many Web sites and print publications with detailed information to help you start exploring activities relating to native plant gardening and conservation.

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Links to Web sites with information that focuses on issues relevant to conservation of native plants.

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Links to the Web sites of many provincial, national and international organizations concerned with native plants and biodiversity.

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In the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand what we are taught...

- Baba Dioum, Senegalese conservationist

Large cranberry, Vaccinium macrocarpon S84-5476.
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Large cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon) is the species that is the source of the many commercially cultivated forms of cranberry. At 1 cm or more in length, the berries of this species are particularly large, considering the small size of the plant: the flowers are about 1 cm long, and the plant is 10 cm to 20 cm tall. The name 'cranberry' comes from 'craneberry', as English colonists in Massachusetts called them because the blossoms and stems resemble the head and neck of a crane.


 
 
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