Details for: PI 698277, Vaccinium virgatum Aiton, Clara


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Vaccinium virgatum Aiton
Top Name:
Clara
Origin:
Developed – Georgia, United States
Received by NPGS:
01 Sep 2020
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Reproductive Uniformity:

Hybrid
Form Received:
Plant
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Vaccinium virgatum Aiton
Top Name:
Clara
Origin:
Developed – Georgia, United States
Received by NPGS:
01 Sep 2020
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Reproductive Uniformity:

Hybrid
Form Received:
Plant
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Source History
Developed
1929.
Georgia, United States

Developer(s):
Donated
01 September 2020.
New Jersey, United States
Comment: This replaces PI 554711 CVAC 245 that was determined to be incorrect by Bassil 2020 through molecular markers.
Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
Clara
Type: Site identifier
Group: CULTIVAR
J. T. Bush Introduction Discovered in 1929, introduced in the 1930's
Bush, J.T.

CVAC 2389
Type: Site identifier
Group: LOCAL
Corvallis local number

Narrative
Fruit: skin medium blue; flavor good. Bush: rabbiteye type; vigorous, to 10 ft. high. Received as Vaccinium ashei. Fruit hold up well after picking - Darrow, 1947, Yearbook of Agriculture p. 301

J. T. Bush Introduction Discovered in 1929, introduced in the 1930's
Vaccinium virgatum Aiton
Genus:
Vaccinium
Section:
Cyanococcus
Family:
Ericaceae
Subfamily:
Vaccinioideae
Tribe:
Vaccinieae
Nomen number:

41068
Place of publication:

Hort. kew. 2:12. 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 amoenum Aiton

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishrabbit-eye blueberry  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Englishsouthern black blueberry  1Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
Englishswamp blueberry  1Weakley, A. S. 2011. Flora of the southern and middle Atlantic states.
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Pedigree
Date released:
1930
Description:
Selected from wild V. ashei (syn. = V. virgatum) from Georgia