Details for: PI 554951, Vaccinium corymbosum L., 'Cape Fear'


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Vaccinium corymbosum L.
Cultivar:
'Cape Fear'
Origin:
Developed – North Carolina, United States
Received by NPGS:
27 Apr 1987
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Plant
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Availability
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Vaccinium corymbosum L.
Cultivar:
'Cape Fear'
Origin:
Developed – North Carolina, United States
Received by NPGS:
27 Apr 1987
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Plant
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Source History
Developed
1987.
North Carolina, United States
Comment: Cultivar introduced in 1990
Developer(s):
Donated
27 April 1987.
North Carolina, United States
Comment: Received from Ballington to NCGR-Corvallis
Donor(s):
Accession Group(s)
Group name: VACCINIUM: Blueberries
Note: Vaccinium corymbosum
To search for accessions in this group, click the following link. VACCINIUM: Blueberries

Group name: VACCINIUM: Southern Highbush
Note: Blueberry adapted to cold climate with snow cover
To search for accessions in this group, click the following link. VACCINIUM: Southern Highbush

Group name: VACCINIUM:TRUETOTYPE
Note: True to Type confirmed by Genetic and Morphological techniques
To search for accessions in this group, click the following link. VACCINIUM:TRUETOTYPE

Accession Names and Identifiers
'Cape Fear'
Type: Cultivar name
Group: BLUEBERRY
Jim Ballington collection
Ballington, James R. North Carolina State University

NC 1525
Type: Developer identifier
Group: OTHERNUM
other identifier

CVAC 610
Type: Site identifier
Group: LOCAL
Corvallis local number

Narrative
Fruit: very large; good color, scar, and firmness. Bush: precocious; productive; vigorous; semi-upright; roots readily from cuttings. Susceptible to cane canker; field-resistant to stem blight. Chilling requirement 500-600 hours.CAPE FEAR is recommended for trial throughout the southeastern U.S., as a mid-early ripening, cultivar similar in season to Croatan. It is very precocious and productive, with very large fruit of fine color, picking scar, and firmness, and average quality. Fruit quality is greatly enhanced by rapid removal of field heat following harvest. In unusually warm ripening seasons, if fruit is allowed to get overripe, it has occasionally taken on an unpleasant metallic aftertaste. Therefore it is important to both remove field heat from fruit immediately following harvest, and not allow fruit to get overripe to produce optimum quality. The fruit has a desirable soluble solids/acids ratio for extended shelf-life. The CAPE FEAR plant is vigorous, semi-upright in habit, and widely adapted to soils in the coastal plain and lighter soils in the piedmont and lower mountains (with mulching or incorporation of organic. matter). It is fairly early blooming with a chilling requirement between 500-600 hrs., and irrigation for frost protection is recommended. CAPE FEAR roots readily from softwood and hardwood cuttings. It is susceptible to stem canker and should only be established from canker-free nursery plants. It has shown excellent field tolerance to stem blight.CAPE FEAR is intended primarily as a large-fruited, attractive cultivar with excellent stem scar and firmness in Croatan season for hand-harvest and commercial shipment. It is also adapted for PYO plantings in the piedmont and lower mountains, with appropriate soil modification and permanent irrigation. The name CAPE FEAR is indicative of the proximity of the Cape Fear River basin to the commercial blueberry industry in North Carolina.Stem blight resistant, low chilling. Fruit very large, color and firmness good. Vigorous and productive

Jim Ballington collection

Cultivar Synonym= Tested as NC 1525

NAMED FOR= Cape Fear River Basin, NC, near to blueberry production area
Vaccinium corymbosum L.
Genus:
Vaccinium
Section:
Cyanococcus
Family:
Ericaceae
Subfamily:
Vaccinioideae
Tribe:
Vaccinieae
Nomen number:

41002
Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 1:350. 1753
Verified:
01/14/2010 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Autonym(s)
Vaccinium corymbosum L. var. corymbosum

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Vaccinium atlanticum E. P. Bicknell
Vaccinium constablaei A. Gray

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
EnglishAmerican blueberry  1Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
Englishblueberry  1Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
Englishhighbush blueberry  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Englishswamp blueberry  1Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
Frenchairelle d'Amérique  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Frenchbluet en corymbe  2FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
Germanamerikanische Blueberry  2Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage
Spanisharándano americano  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swedishamerikanskt blåbär  2Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Annotations
  • The Taxonomic Name Of The Accession When It Was Received: 12 Oct 1989, from Vaccinium spp. to Vaccinium hybr.
  • Taxonomic Re-Identification: 15 May 1998, from Vaccinium hybr. to Vaccinium corymbosum L.
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Pathogens
Elisa test
  • Blueberry Scorch Carlavirus. NEGATIVE 14 May 2015. Inventory: CVAC 610 .001 PL
  • Blueberry Shock Ilarvirus. NEGATIVE 14 May 2015. Inventory: CVAC 610 .001 PL
  • Blueberry Leaf Mottle Nepovirus. NEGATIVE 14 May 2015. Inventory: CVAC 610 .001 PL
  • Blueberry Shoestring Virus. NEGATIVE 14 May 2015. Inventory: CVAC 610 .001 PL
  • TOMRSV rep. 1 (Elisa). NEGATIVE 14 May 2015. Inventory: CVAC 610 .001 PL
  • Tobacco Ringspot Virus. NEGATIVE 14 May 2015. Inventory: CVAC 610 .001 PL
Vouchers
Citations
Pedigree
Date released:
1990
Description:
(V. darrowii x V. corymbosum) x V. corymbosum

Observations

Phenotype Data

CategoryDescriptorDescriptionValueSample SizeStudyInventoryAvailability
GENSTOCKVACCINIUM CORE SUBSETA flag to indicate the accession is part of the core subsetYES VACCINIUM.CORE.1998 Not Available
GENSTOCKTRUE TO TYPEConfirmation of cultivar identity based on pedigree analysis (parents and or offspring) using molecular markers YES 2019 10-SSR BlueberryCVAC 610 .001 PLNot Available
PHYSIOLOGYMineral and soil adaptation indices Mineral and soil adaptation indices of Vaccinium cultivars and interspecific hybrids.7 Scheerens, Erb, Goulart, Hancock 1999 Mineral Soil Not Available
Genotype Data
Poly TypeMarkerValueEvaluationStudy TypeInventory
MICROSATELLITECA23a157:1602019 10-SSR BlueberryFINGERPRNTCVAC 610 .001 PL
MICROSATELLITECA23a157:1602019 10-SSR BlueberryFINGERPRNTCVAC 610 .001_F PL
MICROSATELLITEGVC-C179a212:221:2242019 10-SSR BlueberryFINGERPRNTCVAC 610 .001 PL
MICROSATELLITEGVC-C179a212:221:2242019 10-SSR BlueberryFINGERPRNTCVAC 610 .001_F PL
MICROSATELLITEKAN-262a246:2492019 10-SSR BlueberryFINGERPRNTCVAC 610 .001 PL
MICROSATELLITEKAN-262a246:2492019 10-SSR BlueberryFINGERPRNTCVAC 610 .001_F PL
MICROSATELLITENA172a304:3072019 10-SSR BlueberryFINGERPRNTCVAC 610 .001 PL
MICROSATELLITENA172a304:3072019 10-SSR BlueberryFINGERPRNTCVAC 610 .001_F PL
MICROSATELLITEPr031818819a313:315:323:3272019 10-SSR BlueberryFINGERPRNTCVAC 610 .001 PL
MICROSATELLITEPr031818819a313:315:323:3272019 10-SSR BlueberryFINGERPRNTCVAC 610 .001_F PL
MICROSATELLITEGVC-C571123:1262019 10-SSR BlueberryFINGERPRNTCVAC 610 .001_F PL