Details for: PI 691861, Vaccinium fuscatum Aiton, V. fuscatum Istokpoga Females x Deep Creek Males


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Vaccinium fuscatum Aiton
Top Name:
V. fuscatum Istokpoga Females x Deep Creek Males
Origin:
Developed – Florida, United States
Received by NPGS:
14 Nov 2019
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Reproductive Uniformity:

Population
Form Received:
Plant
Life Form:
Shrub
Life Habit:
Shrub
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Vaccinium fuscatum Aiton
Top Name:
V. fuscatum Istokpoga Females x Deep Creek Males
Origin:
Developed – Florida, United States
Received by NPGS:
14 Nov 2019
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Reproductive Uniformity:

Population
Form Received:
Plant
Life Form:
Shrub
Life Habit:
Shrub
Source History
Developed
14 November 2019.
Florida, United States
Comment: from the southern limits of the range of native highbush blueberry
Developer(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
V. fuscatum Istokpoga Females x Deep Creek Males
Type: Site identifier
Group: SPECIES
accession preserved for genes
Lyrene, Paul University of Florida

CVAC 2377
Type: Site identifier
Group: LOCAL
Corvallis local number

Narrative
The mother plants from which these seeds were harvested originated as softwood cuttings taken from 8 wild clones from the swampy margins of Lake Istokpoga in Highlands County Florida and 11 wild clones from near the Deep Creek Preserve, Arcadia Florida. These locations are near the southern limits of the range of native highbush blueberry in Florida. These clones were 2 to 4 m tall in the forest and were selected for having the largest leaves (in an effort to minimize clones having V. darrowii introgression). These 19 clones were grown for 1.5 years in 5-gallon pots in Gainesville, Florida. In January, 2019, two plants of each clone were placed outdoors near a natural area on the campus of the University of Florida, Gainesville. The plants flowered heavily and were heavily pollinated by Bombus, Habropoda, and by honeybees. Little or no extraneous Vaccinium pollen would have been available to contaminate the polycross. Fruit set was very high on all plants. When the berries began to mature, the plants were moved to a screenhouse where they were protected from birds. Thousands of berries were harvested during a 6-week period starting in late April, 2019. Berries from the Istokpoga clones were kept separate from berries from Deep Creek clones. However, during the pollination period, all plants had been placed together and pollen from all clones would have been abundantly available to the bees. The number of berries harvested from each bush was not standardized, but an effort was made to harvest a large number of berries from each plant. The berries were composited into 2 groups: those from Istokpoga mother plants and those from Deep Creek mother plants. Seeds were extracted and dried. ….Paul Lyrene, Nov. 2019
Vaccinium fuscatum Aiton
Genus:
Vaccinium
Section:
Cyanococcus
Family:
Ericaceae
Subfamily:
Vaccinioideae
Tribe:
Vaccinieae
Nomen number:

41017
Place of publication:

Hort. kew. 2:11. 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 arkansanum Ashe
Vaccinium atrococcum (A. Gray) A. Heller
Vaccinium corymbosum L. var. atrococcum A. Gray

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishblack highbush blueberry  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Englishdowny swamp-huckleberry  1Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening Note: = Vaccinium atrococcum (A. Gray) A. Heller
Englishhairy highbush blueberry  1Weakley, A. S. 2011. Flora of the southern and middle Atlantic states.
Annotations
  • Taxonomic Re-Identification: 15 Nov 2019, from Vaccinium hybr. to Vaccinium fuscatum Aiton
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Date released:
14 Nov 2019
Description:
Istokpoga females x Deep Creek males