There are a few wild blueberry plants growing in a section of my
lawn. I am wondering how they got there.

I have lived here for 20 years and would have noticed them if they
were here all along. As I understand it, blueberries spread mainly by
rhizomes. This area is isolated by a paved driveway and a concrete
walk. There are a lot of wild blueberries in my region, but none
around my property.

Since the berries are at the base of a tree, a friend suggested that
perhaps a bird ate some berries and later perched on this tree and
"did his business", leaving some berry seeds on the ground by the
tree..

Is it possible that blueberry seeds (or any seeds for that matter)
could pass through a digestive system and still germinate?

wrote:
There are a few wild blueberry plants growing in a section of my
lawn. I am wondering how they got there.

I have lived here for 20 years and would have noticed them if they
were here all along. As I understand it, blueberries spread mainly
by
rhizomes. This area is isolated by a paved driveway and a concrete
walk. There are a lot of wild blueberries in my region, but none
around my property.

Since the berries are at the base of a tree, a friend suggested that
perhaps a bird ate some berries and later perched on this tree and
"did his business", leaving some berry seeds on the ground by the
tree..

Is it possible that blueberry seeds (or any seeds for that matter)
could pass through a digestive system and still germinate?

That's how most fruits work--something eats them and then deposits the
seeds in the midst of a nice pile of fertilizer.

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Thanks for the speedy reply.

I am surprised that seeds survive the digestive process!

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:35:17 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

There are a few wild blueberry plants growing in a section of my
lawn. I am wondering how they got there.

I have lived here for 20 years and would have noticed them if they
were here all along. As I understand it, blueberries spread mainly by
rhizomes. This area is isolated by a paved driveway and a concrete
walk. There are a lot of wild blueberries in my region, but none
around my property.

Since the berries are at the base of a tree, a friend suggested that
perhaps a bird ate some berries and later perched on this tree and
"did his business", leaving some berry seeds on the ground by the
tree..

Is it possible that blueberry seeds (or any seeds for that matter)
could pass through a digestive system and still germinate?


Most definitely. Seeds are tough. And when the seed passes through
it gets the added benefit of a small deposit of natural fertilizer.
The wild blueberry plants in east Tennessee are typically much smaller
than plants you might purchase at a nursery.

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Phisherman wrote:

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:35:17 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

There are a few wild blueberry plants growing in a section of my
lawn. I am wondering how they got there.

I have lived here for 20 years and would have noticed them if they
were here all along. As I understand it, blueberries spread mainly by
rhizomes. This area is isolated by a paved driveway and a concrete
walk. There are a lot of wild blueberries in my region, but none
around my property.

Since the berries are at the base of a tree, a friend suggested that
perhaps a bird ate some berries and later perched on this tree and
"did his business", leaving some berry seeds on the ground by the
tree..

Is it possible that blueberry seeds (or any seeds for that matter)
could pass through a digestive system and still germinate?


Most definitely. Seeds are tough. And when the seed passes through
it gets the added benefit of a small deposit of natural fertilizer.
The wild blueberry plants in east Tennessee are typically much smaller
than plants you might purchase at a nursery.

We have them in abundance about . Called low bush with a few high
bush here and there. The flowers were claimed when heated and breathed
to cure insanity. Some book buried about called "How the Indians used
wild plants".

May be out of print.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw...ripbooks&field
-keywords=How+the+indians+used+wild+plants&x=0&y=0

Bill

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Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA
Neat place .. http://www.petersvalley.org/

They evolved to do so! The reason berries exist at all for the most part is
to entice birds or other animals to eat the seeds inside them and poop them
out somewhere else where they will sprout. The plants aren't producing the
berries just out of the goodness of their hearts. :-)

Utopia in Decay
http://home.comcast.net/~kevin.cherkauer/site/

Kevin Cherkauer


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I am surprised that seeds survive the digestive process!

Thanks everyone for the info.................