Details for: PI 554666, Vaccinium angustifolium Aiton, 'Augusta'


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Vaccinium angustifolium Aiton
Cultivar:
'Augusta'
Origin:
Developed – Nova Scotia, Canada
Received by NPGS:
02 May 1983
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Plant
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Availability
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Vaccinium angustifolium Aiton
Cultivar:
'Augusta'
Origin:
Developed – Nova Scotia, Canada
Received by NPGS:
02 May 1983
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Plant
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Source History
Developed
1975.
Nova Scotia, Canada

Developer(s):
Donated
02 May 1983.
Nova Scotia, Canada
Comment: Received from Brydon in Nova Scotia to NCGR-Corvallis
Donor(s):
06 March 2003.


Accession Group(s)
Group name: VACCINIUM: Lowbush blueberries
Note: Blueberry cultivars selected from Vaccinium angustifolium or Vaccinium myrtilloides
To search for accessions in this group, click the following link. VACCINIUM: Lowbush blueberries

Accession Names and Identifiers
'Augusta'
Type: Cultivar name
Group: BLUEBERRY
Leslie Whitten selection seedling selected in 1933, introduced in 1975 selected and tested in Maine, released by Agriculture Canada in Nova Scotia.
Aalders, Lewis Eldon Agriculture Canada

ME2
Type: Developer identifier
Group: OTHERNUM
other identifier

CANADA VAC0101
Type: Institute identifier
Group: CANADA CGB
Canadian Clonal Gene Bank

CVAC 222
Type: Site identifier
Group: LOCAL
Corvallis local number

Narrative
Open pollinated seedling selected by Leslie Whitten from clone 3302, which was selected at Frankfort, Maine in 1933; tested as ME2; Fruit: large, oval; attractive; good eating quality fresh or frozen; berries borne well off the ground, mature univormly for a single harvest, thus adaptable to mechanical harvest; ripens midseason. Plant: shoots green, 18 cm high; foliage thick; productive; roots readily; self-incompatible. Susceptible to witches' broom caused by Pucciniastrum goeppertianum (Kuhn.) Kleb.; tolerant to redleaf, blight, and Botrytis cinerea Pers. The first clone of lowbush blueberry naimed and released for commercial production through Research Station, Agriculture Canada, Kentville, Nova Scotia, blueberry breeding program. - Brooks and Olmo Register of Fruit and Nut Varieties. 1997. ASHS Press. p 174.

Leslie Whitten selection seedling selected in 1933, introduced in 1975 selected and tested in Maine, released by Agriculture Canada in Nova Scotia

WHY NAMED= first clone of lowbush released for commercial production

NAMED FOR= Augusta, Maine
Vaccinium angustifolium Aiton
Genus:
Vaccinium
Section:
Cyanococcus
Family:
Ericaceae
Subfamily:
Vaccinioideae
Tribe:
Vaccinieae
Nomen number:

40981
Place of publication:

Hort. kew. 2:11. 1789
Verified:
01/14/2010 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Autonym(s)
Vaccinium angustifolium Aiton var. angustifolium

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Vaccinium angustifolium Aiton var. hypolasium Fernald
Vaccinium angustifolium Aiton var. laevifolium House
Vaccinium angustifolium Aiton var. nigrum (Alph. Wood) Dole
Vaccinium brittonii Porter ex E. P. Bicknell
Vaccinium lamarckii Camp
Vaccinium pensylvanicum Lam.
Vaccinium pensylvanicum Lam. var. nigrum Alph. Wood
Vaccinium pensylvanicum Lam. var. pensylvanicum

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishblueberry  1McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Englishearly lowbush blueberry  1FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
Englishlate sweet blueberry  1Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
Englishlow sweet blueberry  1Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
Englishlowbush blueberry  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Englishsweethurts  1Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
Englishupland lowbush blueberry  1Uttal, L. J. 1987. The genus Vaccinium L. (Ericaceae) in Virginia. Castanea 52:239.
Frenchbleuet à feuilles étroites  2FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
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Pathogens
Elisa test
  • Blueberry Scorch Carlavirus. NEGATIVE 14 May 2015. Inventory: CVAC 222 .002 PL
  • Blueberry Shock Ilarvirus. NEGATIVE 14 May 2015. Inventory: CVAC 222 .002 PL
  • Blueberry Leaf Mottle Nepovirus. NEGATIVE 14 May 2015. Inventory: CVAC 222 .002 PL
  • Blueberry Shoestring Virus. NEGATIVE 14 May 2015. Inventory: CVAC 222 .002 PL
  • TOMRSV rep. 1 (Elisa). NEGATIVE 14 May 2015. Inventory: CVAC 222 .002 PL
  • Tobacco Ringspot Virus. NEGATIVE 14 May 2015. Inventory: CVAC 222 .002 PL
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Pedigree
Description:
open pollinated seedling from clone 3302 in Frankfort, Maine

Observations

Phenotype Data

CategoryDescriptorDescriptionValueSample SizeStudyInventoryAvailability
GENSTOCKVACCINIUM CORE SUBSETA flag to indicate the accession is part of the core subsetYES VACCINIUM.CORE.1998 Not Available
MORPHOLOGYLEAF COLORAUTUMN FOLIAGE COLORR - RED VACCINIUM.CORVALL.90 Not Available