Details for: PI 618169, Vaccinium virgatum Aiton, 'Austin'

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Vaccinium virgatum Aiton

Cultivar:

'Austin'

Origin:

Developed – Maryland, United States

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

01 May 1997

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:

'Austin'

Origin:

Developed – Maryland, United States

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

01 May 1997

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Plant

Life Form:

Perennial

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Source History

Developed

1966.
Maryland, United States

Developer(s):

USDA-ARS-PIO

1996.
Maryland, United States

Donated

01 May 1997.
Oregon, United States

Donor(s):

Brazelton, David, Fall Creek Farm and Nursery, Inc.

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

'Austin'

Type: Cultivar name

Group: RABBITEYE

Arlen Draper cultivar release

USDA-ARS-PIO

T 339

Type: Developer identifier

Group: OTHERNUM

USDA Coastal Plains Experiment Station, Tifton, Georgia.

CVAC 1315

Type: Site identifier

Group: LOCAL

Corvallis local number

Narrative

'Austin', previously tested as T-339, was selected at Alapaha, Ga., in 1978 by Arlen D. Draper and Max E. Austin from a cross of T110 ('Woodard' x 'Garden Blue') x 'Brightwell' (Fig. 1) and was evaluated there in replicated yield trials. It has also been tested in the Southern Regional Blueberry Evaluation Trials and observed in growers' fields in southern Georgia. Results indicate that 'Austin' is adapted to those areas where rabbiteye blueberries are successfully grown.Fruit: large, lightblue, scar, firmness, and flavor good. Plant: at Poplarville, Miss and Tifton, Georgia, it flowers and ripens about the same time as Climax. Plant: upright, yield high. Yields well and leafs out well as far south as Gainesville, Florida. - Register of New Fruit and Nut Varieties, Brooks and Olmo, ASHS Press 1997. p. 174

Arlen Draper cultivar release

NAMED FOR= Max E. Austin, Retired Blueberry Breeder, Univ. of Georgia

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

Taxonomic Re-Identification: 15 May 1998, from Vaccinium hybr. 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