Northland
Variety of Cultivated blueberry · Vaccinium corymbosum
Extremely hardy half-high variety with wild, sweet flavour for cold climates.
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1🇺🇸 USA 1967
Taste & characteristics
Taste
sweettenderaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Berkeley x Michigan LB-1 (Half-high)
- Breeder
- Michigan State University
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
- Fruit weight
- 1.1 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Small to medium, sweet, dark-blue berries with an intense, wild flavour.
Growth
Low, spreading half-high bush of 0.9-1.2 m.
Yield
Very high yield; early ripening.
Notes
Its low habit stays snow-covered, making it extremely frost hardy (to -40 C); ideal for cold climates and containers.
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