Details for: PI 554960, Vaccinium virgatum Aiton, 'Beckyblue'


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Vaccinium virgatum Aiton
Cultivar:
'Beckyblue'
Origin:
Developed – Florida, United States
Received by NPGS:
18 Jan 1991
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:
'Beckyblue'
Origin:
Developed – Florida, United States
Received by NPGS:
18 Jan 1991
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Plant
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Source History
Developed
1968.
Florida, United States
Comment: Cultivar introduced in 1978
Developer(s):
Donated
18 January 1991.
Florida, United States
Comment: Plants received from Lyrene 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.
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Accession Names and Identifiers
'Beckyblue'
Type: Cultivar name
Group: RABBITEYE

Fla. X
Type: Other or unclassified name
Group: OTHERNUM
other identifier

DUPL=715
Type: Site identifier
Group: OTHERNUM
other identifier

CVAC 874
Type: Site identifier
Group: LOCAL
Corvallis local number

Narrative
Produces in high and low winter chilling, yields well. Earliest of all the rabbiteye cultivars

Sherman and Sharpe cultivar

Cultivar Synonym= Tested as Fla. X
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
  • Taxonomic Re-Identification: 15 May 1998, from Vaccinium hybr. to Vaccinium virgatum Aiton
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Pedigree
Description:
(Florida 6-138) x [Berkeley x (Wareham x Pioneer)]

Observations

Phenotype Data

CategoryDescriptorDescriptionValueSample SizeStudyInventoryAvailability
INSECTSpotted-wing drosophila OSISpotted-wing drosophila OSI10 Stringer, Sampson, and Hummer 2017CVAC 874 .001_F PLNot Available
Genotype Data
Poly TypeMarkerValueEvaluationStudy TypeInventory
MICROSATELLITECA23a157:160:163:1662019 10-SSR BlueberryFINGERPRNTCVAC 874 .001_F PL
MICROSATELLITEGVC-C179a209:216:2212019 10-SSR BlueberryFINGERPRNTCVAC 874 .001_F PL
MICROSATELLITEKAN-262a243:246:251:2542019 10-SSR BlueberryFINGERPRNTCVAC 874 .001_F PL
MICROSATELLITENA172a304:3072019 10-SSR BlueberryFINGERPRNTCVAC 874 .001_F PL
MICROSATELLITEPr031818819a310:319:323:3252019 10-SSR BlueberryFINGERPRNTCVAC 874 .001_F PL