Corema album

Corema album
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Corema
Species:
C. album
Binomial name
Corema album
(L.) D. Don
Synonyms[1]
  • Corema febrifugum Boiss. ex Willk. & Lange
  • Euleucum album (L.) Raf.
  • Empetrum album L.

Corema album, the Portuguese crowberry (Portuguese: camarinha; Galician: camariña); Spanish: camarina, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae endemic to the Iberian Peninsula, Aquitaine, and the Azores (sub-species), where it may also be considered a different species. Its white berries are known to have been consumed by people in the Iberian Peninsula at least since the Middle-Ages.[2] The only other species of the same genus is Corema conradii, found in North America.

  1. ^ "Corema album (L.) D. Don". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  2. ^ de Oliveira, Pedro Bras; Dale, Adam (1 January 2012). "Corema album (L.) D. Don, the white crowberry – a new crop". Journal of Berry Research. 2 (3): 123–133. doi:10.3233/JBR-2012-033.