Narrative
Developer : Freeman Developed : Cultivar note: Crossed in 1934, selected in 1941, intro in 1952 NOTES: Very consistent producer, drought resistant, widely adapted INVENTORY INFORMATION Inventory Name: Bluecrop Secondary ID : 83 Date Received : 01/19/1991 Verification : UNVERIFIED Form Stored : PL Available : YES Field : 10-09 Screenhouse : 10-36-02 Greenhouse : 01-reprop Virus S (10U (s10HKNo longer recommended in N.Carolina due to susceptibility to stem canker 6Ripens late with Rubel, vigorous plant, productive kResistant to root rot caused by Phytopthora cinnamomi. Fruit large, slightly flattened, firm, good color :Difficult to pick, very productive, mid to late season KVigorous, upright, open in growth habit, well adapted to machine harvest ]Mother plant collected in Tyumenskaya Province, Kondinsky region, vicinity of Uray village PMother plant collected in Novosibirsk Province, Dovolensky region, Lake Inder PMother plant collected in Novosibirsk Province, Dovolensky region, Lake Inder PMother plant collected in Novosibirsk Province, Dovolensky region, Lake Inder FMother plant collected in Tyumenskaya Province, vicinity of Urengoy kAbundant in this bog, otherwise rare in the region. Fruits red to dark red above, round to olive shaped aProduces in high and low winter chilling, yields well. Earliest of all the rabbiteye cultivars sSnow cover 2.5m per annum. Minimum temperature -30C. Shrub deciduous, 1.4m tall, multitrunked from base, makes a Passport data not received Clonal selection Seed collected also Blue leaved form
J. H. Clarke, E. M. Meader, and George M. Darrow
Cultivar Synonym= Tested as USDA 18-116
NAMED FOR= Lester Collins, amateur horticulturalist and fruit grower