Abstract: A new and distinct Blueberry cultivar is provided that is the product of a controlled breeding program followed by selection. The cultivar flowers and forms fruit at late-season. The attractive large light blue flattened-round berries exhibit an aromatic sweet flavor. It is recommended that the plant be grown in dry climates outside tunnels. The plant commonly requires cross pollination, and displays a generally open-round somewhat sprawling growth habit with attractive foliage that commonly defoliates during the winter. A low chilling requirement is also exhibited.

Abstract: A new and distinct Blueberry cultivar is provided that is the product of a controlled breeding program followed by selection. The cultivar flowers early and forms fruit that ripens early. Attractive large dark blue crisp berries are formed which exhibit a very sweet flavor. The plant is self-fertile, and displays a generally round growth habit with evergreen foliage. No cross pollination is required. A low chilling requirement is also exhibited. No special sensitivity to common blueberry diseases has been encountered during observations to date.

Abstract: A new and distinct low-chill tetraploid highbush blueberry (Vacinnium) variety of complex ancestry, based largely on V. corymbosum L with some genes from V. darrowi Camp. Its novelty consists of the following unique combination of features: 1. Produces a bush that is upright but somewhat spreading. 2. Has a high resistance to cane canker (Botryosphaeria corticis), and moderate resistance to stem blight (Botryosphaeria dothidia), and to root rot (Phytophthora cinnamomi). 3. Flowers and produces abundant new leaves in areas of central and north Florida where the mean temperature of the coldest month is 62 degrees F. or colder. 4. Ripens its fruit 60 days after flowering in central Florida (latitude 27.5N). 5. Ripens 80% of its fruit between April 10 and May 10 in central Florida. 6. Produces fruit that are large, firm, have a good picking scar, with sweet flavor and good texture. 7. Can be propagated asexually by softwood cuttings.

Abstract: A new and distinct low-chill, tetraploid highbush blueberry (Vaccinium) variety of complex ancestry, based largely on V. corymbosum L. with some genes from V. darrowi Camp. Its V. darrowi genes derive from the fact that the recurrent selection program that gave rise to ‘Emerald’, while largely based on V. corymbosum parentage, also involved some V. darrowi clones. Because ‘Emerald’ is of interspecific origin, it does not correspond to any botanical species, but rather, combines genes from the two species V. corymbosum and V. darrowi. The novelty of the new clone consists of the following unique combination of features: 1. Produces a vigorous, upright plant with high yield potential. 2. Flowers and produces new spring vegetation vigorously in Florida in areas where the mean January temperature is 62° F. or colder. 3. Produces fruit that are large, firm, have a good picking scar, and a good flavor. 4. Can readily be propagated by softwood cuttings under mist. 5.

Abstract: A new and distinct low-chill blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) cultivar. Its novelty lies in the following unique combination of features: 1. Has a very low chilling requirement of about 200 hours below 7° C. 2. Produces a large berry with medium blue color and good scar, firmness, and flavor. 3. Ripens early, with first commercial harvest about April 5 at Sebring Fla. and April 15 at Windsor, Fla. 4. Has a bush of medium vigor that is midway between spreading and upright.

Abstract: A new and distinct low-chill southern highbush (Vaccinium corymbosum) cultivar. Its novelty lies in the following unique combination of features: 1. Has a low chilling requirement. 2. Has a vigorous, upright bush. 3. Produces large berries with small, dry picking scar and good firmness, flavor and texture. 4. Ripens its crop early in the season, with most of the harvest in northest Florida coming between April 15 and May 10.

Abstract: A new and distinct southern highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) variety. Its novelty lies in the following unique combination of features: 1. Has a low chilling requirement. 2. Produces a vigorous, upright bush. 3. Produces large, medium-blue berries with a small dry picking scar and high firmness. 4. Is capable of high yields of berries that ripen before May 20 in northeast Florida.

Abstract: A new and distinct low-chill tetraploid highbush blueberry (Vaccinium) variety of complex hybrid ancestry, based largely on V. corymbosum with some genes of V. darrowi. Its novelty consists of the following unique combination of features: 1. Produces a vigorous bush that is upright but somewhat spreading. 2. Has high resistance to cane canker (Botryosphaeria corticis) and medium resistance to stem blight (B. dothidia) and phytophthora root rot Phytophthora cinnamomi). 3. Flowers and fruits well in areas of central and north Florida where the mean temperature of the coldest month is 60° F. or colder. 4. Ripens its fruit 60 days after flowering in north-central Florida (latitude 29.5). 5. Ripens 80% of its fruit between April 10 and May 5 in north-central Florida. 6. Produces berries that are very large, firm, dark-blue in color, have a large and sometimes humid picking scars, and a sweet, pleasant flavor. 7. Propagates readily from softwood cuttings.

Abstract: A new and distinct low-chill tetraploid highbush blueberry (Vaccinium) variety of complex hybrid ancestry, based largely on V. corymbosum L. with some genes from V. darrowi. Because of its interspecific hybrid origin, ‘Millennia’ does not correspond exactly to any botanical species, but is closest to Vaccinium corymbosum. It belongs to the commercial class of blueberry called “southern highbush”. Its novelty consists of the following unique combination of features: 1. Produces a vigorous bush that is upright but somewhat spreading. 2. Has high resistance to cane canker (Botryosphaeria corticis), medium resistance to phytophthora root rot (Phytophthora cinnamomi), and low to medium resistance to stem blight (Botryosphaeria dothidia). 3. Flowers and fruits well in areas of central and north Florida where the mean temperature of the coldest month is 57° F. or colder. 4. Ripens its fruit 60 days after flowering in north-central Florida (latitude 29.5). 5.

Abstract: A new and distinct low-chill southern highbush blueberry (Vaccinium) variety of complex ancestry, based largely on V. corymbosum L. with some genes from V. darrowi Camp. Its novelty consists of the following unique combination of features. 1. Has a very low chilling requirement. 2. Flowers, produces new leaves, and ripens very early in the year if planted in central Florida where the mean January temperature averages about 63° F. 3. Averages 50% ripe about April 20 in Sebring, Fla. and about May 1 in Gainesville, Fla. 4. Produces a vigorous, upright bush with medium to good survival in the field. 5. Produces berries that are medium to large, medium-blue in color, and have good firmness, good flavor and a medium to good picking scar.

Abstract: ‘Southern Belle’ is a new southern highbush blueberry variety that originated as a seedling selected from the University of Florida recurrent selection program, in which genes from Vaccinium corymbosum and V. darrowi were being combined and selected to obtain varieties that are adapted to mild-winter regions and produce large, high-quality berries early in the harvest season. ‘Southern Belle’ has been tested in clonal plots in south Georgia and north Florida since 1984. ‘Southern Belle’ produces a vigorous, low-chill bush that sprouts abundantly from the base, and produces a heavy crop of fruit on stout, upright stems that can reach 4 to 5 m tall if not pruned. The berries, which ripen in late April and early May in north Florida, are large and have a very small, dry picking scar, as well as good firmness and a mild, subacid flavor. The berry picks free of stems and adhering dried corollas and has excellent post-harvest life if stored at 32° F.

Abstract: A new and distinct low-chill rabbiteye blueberry (Vaccinium ashei) cultivar. Its novelty consists of the following unique combination of features: 1. Has a low chilling requirement. 2. When grown in full sun, produces berries which, when mature, are pink to red on top and pink to white on the bottom. 3. Berries average about 1.3 g in weight and are sweet and low-acid when ripe. 4. The plant is vigorous and upright in growth habit. 5. The plant reaches 50% flowering about March 15 and 50% ripe fruit about May 25 when grown in the field in Gainesville, Fla.

Abstract: A southern highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) cultivar particularly distinguished by having a chilling requirement of 200 to 300 hours below 7° C., a vigorous bush with good survival in the field and producing early-ripening berries that are large, sweet, and firm with a powdery blue surface on the ripe berries, with good scars, firmness and flavor and berries that are borne in loose clusters, is disclosed.

Abstract: A southern highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) cultivar particularly distinguished by having a low chilling requirements (300 hours below 7° C.) with prolific early-spring leafing, a vigorous, dense bush with numerous canes, dark green leaves and good survival in the field, early ripening (50% ripe berries in north Florida by May 5) and a high yield of berries that are sweet and firm with a small, dry picking scar.

Abstract: A southern highblush blueberry (Vaccinium corymblosum) cultivar particularly distinguished by having a medium-low chilling requirement (400 to 500 hours below 7° C.) producing a vigorous bush with good survival in the field, early ripening (50% ripe berries in north Florida by May 1) and berries that are large, sweet and firm.

Abstract: A southern highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) cultivar particularly distinguished by having a very low chilling requirement (300 hours below 7° C.) with leaves that are evergreen to semi-evergreen and smaller than typical southern highbush leaves with a striking blue-green color, plants flowers early in the spring and produces medium sized, light-blue colored berries that have excellent flavor and texture is disclosed.

Abstract: A new and distinct low-chill southern highbush (Vaccinium corymbosum) cultivar. Its novelty lies in the following unique combination of features: 1. Has a very low chilling requirement. 2. Has a vigorous bush with a somewhat spreading growth habit. 3. Ripens its berries between April 1 and April 30 in northest Florida. 4. Produces firm berries with a light-blue color and a good picking scar.

Abstract: A new and distinct low-chill rabbiteye blueberry (Vaccinium ashei) cultivar. Its novelty lies in the following unique combination of features: 1. Has a low chilling requirement. 2. Has a vigorous bush. 3. Produces large, medium-blue berries with small, dry picking scars and with good firmness, flavor and texture. 4. Ripens its crop early for a rabbiteye blueberry, averaging 7 to 10 days before ‘Climax’ (unpatented), or starting about May 22 in Homerville, Ga.

Abstract: A new and distinct low-chill southern highbush (Vaccinium corymbosum) cultivar. Its novelty lies in the following unique combination of features. 1. Has a chilling requirement of only 200 to 300 hrs. below 7° C. 2. Produces a vigorous bush with good survival in the field. 3. Produces berries that are unusually sweet and firm.

Abstract: A new and distinct low-chill southern highbush (Vaccinium corymbosum) cultivar. Its novelty lies in the following unique combination of features: 1. Has a low chilling requirement. 2. Has a vigorous bush, between upright and spreading. 3. Produces large berries with excellent scar and firmness. 4. Ripens the first 25% of its berries by April 12 in north Florida in an average year.