Details for: PI 652535, Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt. ex M. Roem., Thiessen

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt. ex M. Roem.

Top Name:

Thiessen

Origin:

Collected – Saskatchewan, Canada

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

02 Jun 2005

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

In-vitro

Life Form:

Tree

Life Habit:

Tree

Availability

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt. ex M. Roem.

Top Name:

Thiessen

Origin:

Collected – Saskatchewan, Canada

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

02 Jun 2005

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

In-vitro

Life Form:

Tree

Life Habit:

Tree

Source History

Collected

Saskatchewan, Canada

Developed

1976.

Donated

02 June 2005.
North Dakota, United States

Donor(s):

Accession Names and Identifiers

Thiessen

Type: Site identifier

Group: CULTIVAR

found by Maria Loewen in 1906 Introduced by G. Krahn of Lakeshore Tree Farms, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1976

CAME 240

Type: Site identifier

Group: LOCAL

Corvallis local number

Narrative

Origin west of Hepburn, Saskatchewan (52 degrees N), near the North Saskatchewan River; wild plant discovered in 1906 by maria loewen and transplanted to her parents farm near Debenham. Years later removed to their farm near langham, Saskatchewan. Obtained from this farm and introduced by G. Krahn (Lakeshore Tree Farms, Saskatoon, saskatchewan) in 1976. Flowers a few days earlier than other cultivars. Fruit up to 17 mm diameter, nearly spherical, blue-black with slight bloom; typically 6 to 1 per cluster, cluster fairly loose, uneven ripening; excellent flavor, fresh and juicy. Shrub to 5 m high; initially upright, but tends to sprawl from an early eage, eventually becoming a large bush, up to 6 m spread at maturity; moderate to good suckering near crown, crown expands indefinitely; crown long-lived 70+ years. Hardy to zone 1. some resistance to powdery mildew. It is much favored for U-pick orchards. it had the second largest commercial hectarage in Canada in 1993. Winner of the Canadian Society for Horticultural Science Outstanding Cultivar Award in 1994. - The Brooks and Olmo Register of Fruit and Nut Varieties. APS Press 1997. p. 668.

Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt. ex M. Roem.

Genus:

Amelanchier

Family:

Rosaceae

Subfamily:

Amygdaloideae

Tribe:

Maleae

Subtribe:

Malinae

Nomen number:

2870

Place of publication:

Fam. nat. syn. monogr. 3:147. 1847 (T. Nuttall, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 7:22. 1834, nom. nud.)

Verified:

12/09/1986 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt. ex M. Roem. var. alnifolia (3 active accession[s])
Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt. ex M. Roem. var. pumila (Torr. & A. Gray) C. K. Schneid. (0 active accession[s])

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

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Amelanchier florida Lindl.

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	juneberry	1	Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541 Note: lists as Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt.
English	Pacific serviceberry	1	Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541 Note: lists as Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt.
English	saskatoon	1	Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2 Note: lists as Amelanchier alnifolia Nutt.
English	saskatoon serviceberry	1	Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541 Note: lists as Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt.
English	saskatoon-berry	1	Scoggan, H. J. 1978-1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. Note: lists as Amelanchier alnifolia Nutt.
English	western juneberry	1	Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
English	western serviceberry	1	Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541 Note: lists as Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt.
English	western shadbush	1	Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541 Note: lists as Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt.
German	erlenblättrige Felsenbirne	2	Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1198. Note: as Amelanchier florida

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