The cultivated blueberry is a fruit shrub, being a perennial species, with deciduous leaves and woody branches. A blueberry plant can produce between 4 and 4.5 kg of fruit, depending on the variety, maintenance, pruning, irrigation water, and weather conditions, which means that at an average of 4762 shrubs per hectare, yields of between 19 and 21 tons of fresh fruit can be obtained in the 8th year after planting.
