Details for: PI 559414, Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt. ex M. Roem., Smoky


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt. ex M. Roem.
Top Name:
Smoky
Origin:
Developed – Alberta, Canada
Received by NPGS:
27 Feb 1986
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Plant
Life Form:
Tree
Life Habit:
Tree
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt. ex M. Roem.
Top Name:
Smoky
Origin:
Developed – Alberta, Canada
Received by NPGS:
27 Feb 1986
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Plant
Life Form:
Tree
Life Habit:
Tree
Source History
Developed

Alberta, Canada

Developer(s):
Donated
28 December 2004.
Oregon, United States
Comment: Forest Farm received from Clifty View Nursery, in Bonners Ferry, Idaho.
Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
Smoky
Type: Site identifier
Group: CULTIVAR

CAME 30
Type: Site identifier
Group: LOCAL
Corvallis local number

Narrative
The dominant commercial saskatoon cultivar. Orig. near Beaverlodge, Alberta (55'N), by W.D. Albright. Introd. in 1952 by LA. Wallace, Agriculture Canada, Beaverlodge, Alb. Wild plant discovered on the Beaverlodge Research Station (in the Smoky River drainage basin), transplanted 1918; tested as Selection no. 9 (1928), and B.E.F. 3502 (1935), reselected 1950. Berries up to 14 min diam., spherical, blue-black with bloom, typically seven to 11 per cluster, relatively uneven ripening; good, mild flavor, sweetest cultivar with highest sugar: acid ratio so far; pH 4.1-4.5; relatively large and many seeds. Shrub multistemmed, to 4.5 m high; initially upright to arching-spreading and 6-m spread at maturity; freely suckering near crown, the crow expands indefinitely. Hardy to zone 1 and to Yukon; crown long-lived, 70+ years. Moderately resistant to root aphids. Berries moderately resistant to powdery mildew, but leaves moderately sus-ceptible. Most productive commercial cultivar so far, yielding up to 6000 kg.ha-1. The cultivar that enabled commercial production to start in the prairies; in 1990 it occupied 85% of the hectarage in Canada.
Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt. ex M. Roem.
Genus:
Amelanchier
Family:
Rosaceae
Subfamily:
Amygdaloideae
Tribe:
Maleae
Subtribe:
Malinae
Nomen number:

2870
Place of publication:

Fam. nat. syn. monogr. 3:147. 1847 (T. Nuttall, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 7:22. 1834, nom. nud.)
Verified:
12/09/1986 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt. ex M. Roem. var. alnifolia (3 active accession[s])
Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt. ex M. Roem. var. pumila (Torr. & A. Gray) C. K. Schneid. (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Amelanchier florida Lindl.

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishjuneberry  1Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541 Note: lists as Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt.
EnglishPacific serviceberry  1Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541 Note: lists as Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt.
Englishsaskatoon  1Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2 Note: lists as Amelanchier alnifolia Nutt.
Englishsaskatoon serviceberry  1Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541 Note: lists as Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt.
Englishsaskatoon-berry  1Scoggan, H. J. 1978-1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. Note: lists as Amelanchier alnifolia Nutt.
Englishwestern juneberry  1Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
Englishwestern serviceberry  1Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541 Note: lists as Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt.
Englishwestern shadbush  1Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541 Note: lists as Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt.
Germanerlenblättrige Felsenbirne  2Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1198. Note: as Amelanchier florida
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Description:
Wild selection from the Smoky River Drainage Basin, Alberta, Canada.