Details for: PI 686960, Vaccinium corymbosum L., 'Sam'


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Vaccinium corymbosum L.
Cultivar:
'Sam'
Origin:
Developed – New Jersey, United States
Received by NPGS:
21 Mar 2018
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Reproductive Uniformity:

Hybrid
Form Received:
Plant
Life Form:
Shrub
Life Habit:
Shrub
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Vaccinium corymbosum L.
Cultivar:
'Sam'
Origin:
Developed – New Jersey, United States
Received by NPGS:
21 Mar 2018
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Reproductive Uniformity:

Hybrid
Form Received:
Plant
Life Form:
Shrub
Life Habit:
Shrub
Source History
Developed
1912.
New Jersey, United States

Developer(s):
Donated
21 March 2018.
New Jersey, United States

Donor(s):
Accession Group(s)
Group name: VACCINIUM: Blueberries
Note: Vaccinium corymbosum
To search for accessions in this group, click the following link. VACCINIUM: Blueberries

Group name: VACCINIUM: Heritage
Note: Blueberry cultivars from the early1900s
To search for accessions in this group, click the following link. VACCINIUM: Heritage

Group name: VACCINIUM: Northern Highbush
Note: Blueberry cultivars adapted to colder climates
To search for accessions in this group, click the following link. VACCINIUM: Northern Highbush

Accession Names and Identifiers
'Sam'
Type: Cultivar name
Group: BLUEBERRY
White, Elizabeth

CT fr. 20751-A
Type: Developer identifier
Group: OTHERNUM
other identifier
Ehlenfeldt, Mark USDA, ARS

CVAC 2277
Type: Site identifier
Group: LOCAL
Corvallis local number

Narrative
Original elite clone from Whitesbog, New Jersey; Elizabeth White recalled in 1953:
In getting the early bushes, I tried to name every bush after the finder…and so I had the Adams bush found by Jim Adams, the Harding bush that was found by Ralph Harding, and the Dunphy bush that was found by Theodore Dunphy. When Sam Lemmon found a bush, I could not name it the Lemmon bush so I called it the Sam.
Elizabeth White article in Success magazine in 1927:
Next we cut up the bushes into pieces, sometimes as many as a hundred pieces to a bush. These were planted under glass in carefully prepared propagating beds. But for a long time we had very poor luck with propagation; only about 10% of the plants lived. Finally, we narrowed down to six varieties which seemed in every way suitable for commercial production, Rubel, Harding, Sam, Grover, Adams & Dunfee (sic).
Vaccinium corymbosum L.
Genus:
Vaccinium
Section:
Cyanococcus
Family:
Ericaceae
Subfamily:
Vaccinioideae
Tribe:
Vaccinieae
Nomen number:

41002
Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 1:350. 1753
Verified:
01/14/2010 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Autonym(s)
Vaccinium corymbosum L. var. corymbosum

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Vaccinium atlanticum E. P. Bicknell
Vaccinium constablaei A. Gray

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
EnglishAmerican blueberry  1Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
Englishblueberry  1Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
Englishhighbush blueberry  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Englishswamp blueberry  1Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
Frenchairelle d'Amérique  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Frenchbluet en corymbe  2FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
Germanamerikanische Blueberry  2Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage
Spanisharándano americano  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swedishamerikanskt blåbär  2Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
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Pedigree
Date released:
1911
Description:
elite wild clone from the Whitesbog pine barrens.