Bluegold
Variety of Cultivated blueberry · Vaccinium corymbosum
Compact, very hardy variety with heavy crops of small, flavourful berries.
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1🇺🇸 USA 1989
Taste & characteristics
Taste
firmtartsweetaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Bluehaven x (Ashworth x Bluecrop)
- Breeder
- USDA
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
- Fruit weight
- 1.3 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Medium, firm, light-blue berries with a balanced, slightly spicy flavour.
Growth
Compact, bushy habit of 1.0-1.3 m with many canes.
Yield
Very high yield; mid to late season ripening.
Notes
Good choice for small gardens and containers, very frost hardy.
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