Details for: PI 688407, Vaccinium simulatum Small, V. simulatum VA-2018-064 late ripening

29 August 2018.
Virginia, United States
Locality: Whitetop Mountain, Mud Creek Lane, Grayson Co. VA
Coordinates: 36.6339, -81.6040 (Map it)
Elevation: 1590m.
Georeference protocol: Lat/lon determined by GPS
Environment description: Top of Whitetop Mountain along Mud Creek Lane. Found on rocky, moist, dark soiled, weedy road cuts and in open meadow with Crataegus, fir, Sorbus, yellow birch, wild cherry, azalea, Rubus canadensis, rush, grass, Eupatorium, Prunella, Solidago, sneezeweed, Gentian, Erigeron, various herbs; one or two large clones of V. erythrocarpum found across Mud Creek Lane.
Comment: Small shrub 1-1.2 m, late fruit, white to black shiny ripe; no glaucousness, good picking scar, tart, good quality flavor, potential for large fruit; leaf spot; surrounded by other simulatum with earlier fruit ripening.
Collector(s):

• Ballington, James R., North Carolina State University
• Bushakra, Jill, National Clonal Germplasm Repository
• Hummer, Kim, USDA, ARS
• Lyrene, Paul, University of Florida