Details for: PI 555267, Vaccinium crassifolium Andrews, 'Bloodstone'

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Vaccinium crassifolium Andrews

Cultivar:

'Bloodstone'

Origin:

Developed – North Carolina, United States

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

22 Jan 1986

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Plant

Life Form:

Perennial

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Availability

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Vaccinium crassifolium Andrews

Cultivar:

'Bloodstone'

Origin:

Developed – North Carolina, United States

Maintained:

National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Received by NPGS:

22 Jan 1986

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Plant

Life Form:

Perennial

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Source History

Developed

North Carolina, United States
Comment: Introduced as an evergreen ground cover in 1984
Developer(s):

Donated

22 January 1986.
North Carolina, United States
Comment: Received from Ballington to NCGR-Corvallis
Donor(s):

Ballington, James R., North Carolina State University

Accession Names and Identifiers

'Bloodstone'

Type: Cultivar name

Group: SELECTION

Jim Ballington cultivar release

Kirkman, W. Benson

CVAC 511

Type: Site identifier

Group: LOCAL

Corvallis local number

Narrative

The plant was released as an ornamental. The fruit serves as food for birds and other small wildlife.

Jim Ballington cultivar release

Vaccinium crassifolium Andrews

Genus:

Vaccinium

Section:

Herpothamnus

Family:

Ericaceae

Subfamily:

Vaccinioideae

Tribe:

Vaccinieae

Nomen number:

41003

Place of publication:

Bot. Repos. 2: t. 105. 1800

Comment:

authorship of names in this work follows Shenzhen ICN Art. 46.8; there is no internal evidence in the work for any author other than Andrews (fide K. Gandhi, pers. comm. on 7 Aug 2006)

Verified:

09/05/2003 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Vaccinium crassifolium Andrews subsp. crassifolium (0 active accession[s])
Vaccinium crassifolium Andrews subsp. sempervirens (D. A. Rayner & J. Hend.) W. B. Kirkman & Ballington (0 active accession[s])

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

Common names

Language	Name	Alternate name	note	seq	Citation
English	creeping blueberry			1	Uttal, L. J. 1987. The genus Vaccinium L. (Ericaceae) in Virginia. Castanea 52:252.

Annotations

Nomenclature Name Change: 26 Jan 2000, from Vaccinium sempervirens D. A. Rayner & J. Hend. to Vaccinium crassifolium Andrews

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Sample Size	Study	Inventory	Availability
GENSTOCK	VACCINIUM CORE SUBSET	A flag to indicate the accession is part of the core subset	YES		VACCINIUM.CORE.1998		Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	LEAF COLOR	AUTUMN FOLIAGE COLOR	R - RED		VACCINIUM.CORVALL.90		Not Available