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Call them what you will, blueberries, bilberries, blaeberries, whortleberries, whinberries, winberries, windberries, wimberries, myrtle blueberries and lots of other things too such as ground hurts or fraughan depending on where you are. They are either all the same or all very closely related species of the Vaccinium<\/em> genus and we picked a whole load of them at Pendam yesterday.<\/p>\n

Looks as though we’ll have lots of muffins to get through soon!<\/p>\n

\"Blueberry<\/a>

Purple Fingers<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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