      
Taxon: Vaccinium virgatum Aiton
Genus: Vaccinium section: Cyanococcus
Family: Ericaceae subfamily: Vaccinioideae tribe: Vaccinieae.
Nomen number: 41068
Place of publication: Hort. kew. 2:12. 1789
Name verified on: 10-Jun-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 14-Jan-2006
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Corvallis (COR).
Accessions:
63 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
- rabbit-eye blueberry (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- southern black blueberry (Source: Dict Gard
) – English
- More:
- Human food: fruit (fide Food Feed Crops US)
- Gene sources: crop quality for highbush blueberry (fide Acta Hort 810:53. 2009)
- Gene sources: drought resistance for highbush blueberry (fide Acta Hort 810:53. 2009)
- Gene sources: early maturity for highbush blueberry (fide Acta Hort 810:54. 2009)
- Gene sources: primary genetic relative of rabbit-eye blueberry (fide Acta Hort 810:54. 2009)
- Gene sources: secondary genetic relative of highbush blueberry (based on crossability among members of the section fide Temp Fruit Cr Breed 119. 2008)
- More:
Native: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- Ballington, J. R.
2009. The role of interspecific hybridization in blueberry improvement.
Acta Hort.
810:49–60.
- Clark, R. C.
1971. The woody plants of Alabama.
Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard.
58:225. [= V. ashei J. M. Reade, V. amoenum Aiton].
- Dweikat, I. M. & P. M. Lyrene.
1989. Production and evaluation of a synthetic hexaploid in blueberry.
Theor. Appl. Genet.
77:799–804. [as Vaccinium ashei].
- FNA Editorial Committee.
1993–. Flora of North America.
[= V. corymbosum L.].
- Facciola, S.
1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
[= V. ashei J. M. Reade].
- Hancock, J. F. et al.
2008. Blueberries and cranberries.
In: Hancock, J. F., ed., Temperate fruit crop breeding: germplasm to genomics.
4:115–149. [this review included this hexaploid as Vaccinium ashei; it mentioned its potential uses in blueberry breeding].
- Huxley, A., ed.
1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
- IPGRI.
New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
- Kartesz, J. T.
1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
- Uttal, L. J.
1987. Lectotypification of Cyanococcus cuthbertii Small (Ericaceae).
Sida
12:293.
- Uttal, L. J.
1987. The genus Vaccinium L. (Ericaceae) in Virginia.
Castanea
52:231.
- Vander Kloet, S. P.
1980. The taxonomy of the highbush blueberry, Vaccinium corymbosum.
Canad. J. Bot.
58:1195. [= V. corymbosum L.].
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other web resources for Vaccinium virgatum Aiton:
Images:
- More:
- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
-
 Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be
inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require
specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with
properly documented herbarium material.
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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?41068 (26 May 2013)
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