Talk:Tag:trees=blueberry plants

Not trees?

While it's true that blueberries grow on "bushes" or shrubs, the tag landuse=orchard is used for several types of plants which are not strictly "trees", including bananas, and for short plants grown as shrubs like coffee and tea, but the standard key for describing the type of plant is trees=* even for palms, tea, and bananas. Since blueberry plants are woody perenials (they live many years and have hard stems), so they are more similar to trees than they are to common annual crops like rice, maize or potatoes. --Jeisenbe (talk) 02:05, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Bananas are at least quite tree-like (bigger than me for example), so while it may be inaccurate no one will be surprised by people calling them "tree". I would not say the same for blueberry plants that are woody perennials but are so tiny that noone is going to consider them as a tree Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 09:06, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

https://plants.usda.gov/factsheet/pdf/fs_vaco.pdf - highbush varieties of blueberry grow 6 to 12 feet tall naturally (1.5 to 3.5 meters). Low bush blueberries are only 0.5 to 1 meter however. --Jeisenbe (talk) 00:58, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

OK, that makes sense. I was unaware about highbush varieties Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 08:59, 11 January 2021 (UTC)