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A naturally occurring hybrid of lowbush and highbush blueberry selected for its hybrid vigor and high fruit production. While they prefer moist soils to wet soil like highbush blueberry, their stature is influenced by the shorter lowbush blueberry which gives them a nice medium height. As a wild blueberry the berries are small: perfect for snacking and baking! Needs acidic soil. A good choice for fruit production and safe to plant where they might breed with wild blueberry populations.

These plants are clones of one or several naturally occurring hybrid plants. This makes them good to plant for a fruit crop, but not ideal for restoration plantings due to low genetic diversity. Since blueberries are not self pollinating and these are all genetically identical clones, they will need an individual of a closely related blueberry species nearby to produce fruit.

Pollination: Individual of a different variety or species needed.

Light: Full Sun, Part Sun/Shade

Soil Moisture: Wet Mesic, Mesic

Soil Type: Peaty, Loamy, Sandy

Height: 2’

Width: Suckering

Bloom Color: White, Pink

Bloom Time: Apr-May

Fruit: Small blueberries mature in July.

Fall Color: Red

Root Type: Branching

Notable Wildlife Interactions: No specific data available, likely the same as the parent species: Flowers attract mainly bees. Hosts the brown elfin and Henry’s elfin butterflies, moths such as the blueberry cinder and slender clearwing, and some smaller insects. Berries are an important food source for animals such as eastern box turtles, cedar waxwings, thrushes, woodpeckers, bluebirds, foxes, skunks, and squirrels. Colonies provide habitat for small animals and ground nesting birds.

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