Colour Challenge: Berries

These are called lingonberry aka cowberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea), rode bosbes or vossenbes in Dutch. They are often found near heather.

They have flowers and fruit simultaneously for a long period. The berries are edible, and contain many vitamins, but they are very tart:

^{Olympus XZ-1, 28mm, ISO100, f8, 1/60s}

They are nowhere near as sweet as their cousins called bilberries or whortleberries (Vaccinium myrtillus), blauwe bosbes in Dutch, which, by the way, could very well be indigo (gasp):

^{Olympus XZ-1, 28mm, ISO200, f5.6, 1/80s}

These are much tastier than their American relatives, the northern highbush blueberries (Vaccinium corymbosum), but also more difficult to grow and to pick, and the yield is lower, so they aren't grown commercially. When available in stores, they have been hand-picked in the forest.

Both photos were taken around the Aamsveen, a peat bog in the east of The Netherlands.