Ericaceae FAMILY
Empetrum rubrum
Empetrum rubrum
Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
2/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Empetrum rubrum is a densely branched, prostrate, trailing, evergreen shrub with stems around 50 - 100cm long[ 2147 Title Illustrations of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Falkland Islands Publication Author Vallentin E.F. & Cotton E.M. Publisher L. Reeve & Co., Ashford, Kent, UK Year 1921 ISBN Description Lovely coloured drawings of 64 species of plants with a notes on the plants, including some uses. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food and medicine. It is sometimes grown as an ornamental, where it can be grown as a ground cover in exposed positions.
Habitat & Origin
Origintemperate
Native RangeS. America - central and southern Chile, southern Argentina, Falkland Islands and Tristan da Cunha
HabitatDwarf shrub heath, feldmark communities, bogs and swamps, in open Nothofagus forest and occasionally frequent in the understorey[ 69 Title Flora of Tierra del Fuego. Publication Author Moore. D. M. Publisher Anthony Nelson. Year 1983 ISBN 0-904614-05-0 Description Standard work for this part of S. America. Excellent details of habitat and a few notes on plant uses. ].