Vaccinium vitis idaea, the Red Whortleberry of the Clan Chattan. In recent years the Macphersons have taken to using white heather as their
badge mainly because it is easily found in garden centres, but the rest of the constituent clans continue with this member of the heath family commonly found all over the central Highlands. This example is growing in my garden in North Vancouver. Whortlerry is also known as mountain cranberry, lingonberry, cowberry and foxberry.



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