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Lowbush blueberry is an absolutely new object of cultivation under soil-climatic conditions of Belarus. The possibility for reclamation of open cast peat pits could be the usage of V. angustifolium. The field experiment, grown on production plantation on opencast peat pits, was initiated to assess forms on lowbush blueberry plant growth and yield. Quite active increase in a vegetative mass of V. angustifolium was shown to take place during a vegetation season. A value of a year's increase, being from 18.5 to 28.3 cm depending on a form, indicated this. A basic difference of lowbush blueberry morphogenesis from its related highbush blueberry was revealed. Phytocenotic resistance and the pronounced ability for territorial expansion by clonal propagation point to validity of carrying out subsequent investigation for application of V. angustifolium L. in recultivation of exhausted peat lands.