Details for: PI 554712, Vaccinium virgatum Aiton, 'Early May'

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Vaccinium virgatum Aiton

Cultivar:

'Early May'

Origin:

Developed – Georgia, United States

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

11 Jan 1990

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:

'Early May'

Origin:

Developed – Georgia, United States

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

11 Jan 1990

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Plant

Life Form:

Perennial

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Source History

Developed

Georgia, United States

Donated

11 January 1990.
Georgia, United States
Comment: Received from Max Austin in Georgia to NCGR-Corvallis
Donor(s):

Austin, Max, Coastal Plain Experiment Station

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

'Early May'

Type: Cultivar name

Group: RABBITEYE

CVAC 247

Type: Site identifier

Group: LOCAL

Corvallis local number

Narrative

Received as Vaccinium ashei.

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

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	rabbit-eye blueberry	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English	southern black blueberry	1	Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
English	swamp blueberry	1	Weakley, 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

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Sample Size	Study	Inventory	Availability
GENSTOCK	VACCINIUM CORE SUBSET	A flag to indicate the accession is part of the core subset	YES		VACCINIUM.CORE.1998		Not Available
STRESS	MAX MID-WINTER COLD HARDINESS	MID-WINTER HARDINESS,SUSTAINED MINIMUM LT50 IN DEGREES CELCIUS, OBSERVED IN BLUEBERRY CULTIVARS	-19.8		VACCINIUM.COLDHARDY.NEWJERSEY.2006		Not Available

Genotype Data

Poly Type	Marker	Value	Evaluation	Study Type	Inventory
MICROSATELLITE	CA23a	157:160:163:166	2019 10-SSR Blueberry	FINGERPRNT	CVAC 247 .001 PL
MICROSATELLITE	CA23a	157:160:163:166	2019 10-SSR Blueberry	FINGERPRNT	CVAC 247 .001_F PL
MICROSATELLITE	GVC-C179a	216:221:224	2019 10-SSR Blueberry	FINGERPRNT	CVAC 247 .001 PL
MICROSATELLITE	GVC-C179a	216:221:224	2019 10-SSR Blueberry	FINGERPRNT	CVAC 247 .001_F PL
MICROSATELLITE	KAN-262a	240:246:251:260	2019 10-SSR Blueberry	FINGERPRNT	CVAC 247 .001 PL
MICROSATELLITE	KAN-262a	240:246:251:260	2019 10-SSR Blueberry	FINGERPRNT	CVAC 247 .001_F PL
MICROSATELLITE	NA172a	304:307	2019 10-SSR Blueberry	FINGERPRNT	CVAC 247 .001 PL
MICROSATELLITE	NA172a	304:307	2019 10-SSR Blueberry	FINGERPRNT	CVAC 247 .001_F PL
MICROSATELLITE	Pr031818819a	310:317:323	2019 10-SSR Blueberry	FINGERPRNT	CVAC 247 .001 PL
MICROSATELLITE	Pr031818819a	310:317:323	2019 10-SSR Blueberry	FINGERPRNT	CVAC 247 .001_F PL