Details for: PI 554694, Vaccinium virgatum Aiton, 'Ethel'


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Vaccinium virgatum Aiton
Cultivar:
'Ethel'
Origin:
Developed – Georgia, United States
Received by NPGS:
26 May 1983
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Plant
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Availability
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Vaccinium virgatum Aiton
Cultivar:
'Ethel'
Origin:
Developed – Georgia, United States
Received by NPGS:
26 May 1983
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Plant
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Source History
Developed
1944.
Georgia, United States

Developer(s):
Donated
26 May 1983.
Georgia, United States
Comment: Received from Max Austin in Georgia to NCGR-Corvallis
Donor(s):
Accession Group(s)
Group name: VACCINIUM: Rabbiteye blueberries
Note: Blueberries mostly composted of Vaccinium virgatum formerly known as V. ashei blueberry cultivars. Hexaploid.
To search for accessions in this group, click the following link. VACCINIUM: Rabbiteye blueberries

Accession Names and Identifiers
'Ethel'
Type: Cultivar name
Group: RABBITEYE

Satilla
Type: Other or unclassified name
Group: RABBITEYE

DUPL=241.001
Type: Site identifier
Group: OTHERNUM
other identifier

CVAC 229
Type: Site identifier
Group: LOCAL
Corvallis local number

Narrative
Received as Vaccinium ashei.

Satilla is a synonym for Ethel

Cultivar Synonym= Ethel

NAMED FOR= Satilla River, Georgia
Vaccinium virgatum Aiton
Genus:
Vaccinium
Section:
Cyanococcus
Family:
Ericaceae
Subfamily:
Vaccinioideae
Tribe:
Vaccinieae
Nomen number:

41068
Place of publication:

Hort. kew. 2:12. 1789
Verified:
06/10/1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Vaccinium amoenum Aiton

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishrabbit-eye blueberry  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Englishsouthern black blueberry  1Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
Englishswamp blueberry  1Weakley, A. S. 2011. Flora of the southern and middle Atlantic states.
Annotations
  • Nomenclature Name Change: 10 Jun 1992, from Vaccinium ashei J. M. Reade to Vaccinium virgatum Aiton
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Description:
Selection from wild V. ashei from Brunswick, Georgia

Observations

Phenotype Data

CategoryDescriptorDescriptionValueSample SizeStudyInventoryAvailability
MORPHOLOGYLEAF COLORAUTUMN FOLIAGE COLORG - GREEN VACCINIUM.CORVALL.90 Not Available