Details for: PI 652482, Lonicera caerulea L., 'Bluebird'

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Lonicera caerulea L.

Cultivar:

'Bluebird'

Origin:

Collected – Former, Soviet Union

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

26 Jul 1990

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Plant

Life Form:

Shrub

Life Habit:

Shrub

Availability

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Lonicera caerulea L.

Cultivar:

'Bluebird'

Origin:

Collected – Former, Soviet Union

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

26 Jul 1990

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Plant

Life Form:

Shrub

Life Habit:

Shrub

Source History

Collected

Russian Federation

Collector(s):

Developed

Former, Soviet Union

Donated

26 July 1990.
Oregon, United States

Donor(s):

Thompson, Maxine, National Clonal Germplasm Repository

05 November 2004.
Oregon, United States

Donor(s):

Thompson, Maxine, National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Accession Names and Identifiers

'Bluebird'

Type: Cultivar name

Group: Blue Honeysuckle

Lonicera caerulea common name

CLON 2

Type: Site identifier

Group: LOCAL

Corvallis local number

PLON 1

Type: Inventory

Narrative

One of the three first blue honeysuckle cultivars developed at St. Petersburg VIR station. This cultivar was released in 1980. At that time the breeding program was at its initial stages. The three cultivars that were named were the best F1 and F2 seedlings of native collected wild blue honeysuckle from the Kamchatka Peninsula. Geneticly uniform from a limited gene pool was available for the crosses that were made.

M. N. Plekhanova. 2000. Blue honeysuckle (Lonicera caerulea L.) - A new commercial berry crop for temperate climate: genetic resources and breeding. Acta Hort. 538:159-164.

Medium vigor plant, upright growing to 5 to 6' tal. large, long, dark blue sweet tasting berries. - One Green World Catalog 2005.

Lonicera caerulea L.

Genus:

Lonicera

Family:

Caprifoliaceae

Subfamily:

Caprifolioideae

Nomen number:

22559

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 1:174. 1753

Typification:

View in Linnean Typification Project

Verified:

01/13/2003 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Lonicera caerulea L. var. altaica Pall. (1 active accession[s])
Lonicera caerulea L. var. caerulea (0 active accession[s])
Lonicera caerulea L. var. cauriana (Fernald) B. Boivin (0 active accession[s])
Lonicera caerulea L. var. dependens (Regel ex Dippel) Rehder (1 active accession[s])
Lonicera caerulea L. var. edulis Turcz. ex Herder (34 active accession[s])
Lonicera caerulea L. var. emphyllocalyx (Maxim.) Nakai (10 active accession[s])
Lonicera caerulea L. var. kamtschatica Sevast. (4 active accession[s])
Lonicera caerulea L. var. pallasii (Ledeb.) Cinovskis (0 active accession[s])
Lonicera caerulea L. var. villosa (Michx.) Torr. & A. Gray (7 active accession[s])

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Lonicera caerulea L. var. glabrescens auct.

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	blue honeysuckle	1	Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage
English	blueberry honeysuckle	1	Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
English	fly honeysuckle	1	Moss, E. H. & J. G. Packer. 1983. Flora of Alberta, ed. 2.
French	camérisier bleu	2	Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage
German	blaue Heckenkirsche	2	Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage
Japanese Rōmaji	ke-yonomi	2	Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993-. Flora of Japan.
Swedish	blåtry	2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)

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