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Origin: in Orono, Maine, by Agr. Expt. Sta., Univ. of Maine. Introd. in 1975. Open-pollinated seedling selected by Leslie Whitten from clone 3302, which was selected at Frankfort, Maine, in 1933; tested as ME2. Tree: shoots green, 18 cm high; foliage thick; productive; roots readily; self-incompatible. Susceptible to witches' broom caused by Pucciniastrum goeppertianum (Kuhn.) Kleb.; tolerant to redleaf, blight, and Botrytis cinerea Pers. The first clone of lowbush blueberry Vaccinium angustifolium Ait. named and released for commercial production through Res. Sta., Agriculture Canada, Kentville, Nova Scotia, blueberry breeding program. Fruit: large, oval; attractive; good eating quality fresh or frozen; berries borne well off the ground, mature uniformly for a single harvest, thus adaptable to mechanical harvest; ripens rnidseason.
Late-season northern highbush blueberry; not to be confused with V. angustifolium cultivar of same name released in 1975. Origin: Research Institute for Fruit Growing Pitesti, Romania by P. Mladin. Berkeley × Blueray; crossed 1982; selected 1995; tested as 82-2-55/3; introd. 1999. Tree: vigorous; upright; high-yielding; resistant to anthracnose (Gleosporium fructigenum) and fire blight (Erwinia amylovora); moderately resistant to Phomopsis spp. and Septoria albopunctata. Fruit: large; light-blue; round-flattened shape; good dessert quality, medium firmness; small, dry pedicel scar.