Details for: Ames 33073, Aronia melanocarpa (Michx.) Elliott, 'Professor Ed'

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Aronia melanocarpa (Michx.) Elliott

Cultivar:

'Professor Ed'

Origin:

Collected – New Hampshire, United States

Maintained:

North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station

Received by NPGS:

11 Nov 2015

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Plant

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Life Habit:

Shrub

Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Cutting	5 count		Ames 33073 20ncabc1 PL
Leaves	0.05 gram		Ames 33073 21ncaic1 LV

Note: When you select cuttings, you will receive unrooted cuttings, not rooted plants, unless specific arrangements have been made with the curator.

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Aronia melanocarpa (Michx.) Elliott

Cultivar:

'Professor Ed'

Origin:

Collected – New Hampshire, United States

Maintained:

North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station

Received by NPGS:

11 Nov 2015

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Plant

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Life Habit:

Shrub

Source History

Collected

2008.
New Hampshire, United States

Collector(s):

Williams, Isaac Langley, Exeter Wild Flower Gardens

Donated

11 November 2015.
Connecticut, United States

Donor(s):

Brand, Mark H., University of Connecticut

Accession Names and Identifiers

'Professor Ed'

Type: Cultivar name

UC 023

Type: Donor identifier

Brand, Mark H. University of Connecticut

Ames 33073

Type: Site identifier

Group: AMES

NC-7 Research Numbers

Narrative

Clonal selection. Originally collected from the wild by Isaac Langley Williams, native plant collector of Exeter, New Hampshire in 1956. In 2008, it was named 'Professor Ed' by Roy Klehm, Klehm's Song Sparrow Farm. According to Dr. Edward R. Hasselkus (Professor Emeritus of horticulture at the University of Wisconsin, Madison - Longenecker Gardens), "This cultivar has fine texture (small leaves, flowers, and fruits), and has a nice dense, slow-growing habit.” This cultivar is reported to have good quality foliage and uniform, compact habit.

Aronia melanocarpa (Michx.) Elliott

Genus:

Aronia

Family:

Rosaceae

Subfamily:

Amygdaloideae

Tribe:

Maleae

Subtribe:

Malinae

Nomen number:

4247

Place of publication:

Sketch bot. S. Carolina 1:557. 1821

Verified:

12/11/2003 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

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

Basionym
Mespilus arbutifolia L. var. melanocarpa Michx.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Aronia nigra (Medik.) Dippel
Aronia nigra (Willd.) Koehne
Photinia melanocarpa (Michx.) K. R. Robertson & J. B. Phipps
Pyrus melanocarpa (Michx.) Willd.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Aronia melanocarpa Spach
Hahnia arbutifolia (L.) Medik. var. nigra Medik.
Pyrus arbutifolia (L.) L. f. var. nigra Willd.
Pyrus nigra (Willd.) Sarg.

Common names

Language	Name	note	seq	Citation
English	black chokeberry		1	Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
English (Canada)	black chokecherry	Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada official name	2	Darbyshire, S. J. 2003. Inventory of Canadian Agricultural Weeds Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. 131.
French (Canada)	aronie à fruit noir	Agriculture & Agroalimentaire Canada nom officiel	2	Darbyshire, S. J. 2003. Inventory of Canadian Agricultural Weeds Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. 131.
German	Apfelbeere		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	kahle Apfelbeere		2	Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1220.
Swedish	svartaronia		2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)

Annotations

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Sample Size	Study	Inventory	Availability
COMMENT	PLOIDY LEVEL	Ploidy level of accession.	diploid		ARONIA PLOIDY		Not Available
CYTOLOGIC	PLOIDY	Ploidy level of accession.	DIPLOID - Diploid.		ARONIA PLOIDY		Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	FRUIT DIAMETER	Diameter of fruit (measured in mm) obtained at harvest. Random sample of 30, intact fruits from a single specimen or a population.	8.98453	10	ARONIA FRUIT DIAMETER	Ames 33073 15ncaoc1 PL	Not Available