The olallieberry ( ), sometimes spelled ollalieberry, olallaberry, olalliberry, ollalaberry or ollaliberry, is the marketing name for the 'Olallie'

blackberry The blackberry is an edible fruit produced by many species in the genus ''Rubus'' in the family Rosaceae, hybrids among these species within the subgenus ''Rubus'', and hybrids between the subgenera ''Rubus'' and ''Idaeobatus''. The taxonomy of ...

released by the

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(in collaboration with

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). The berry was a selection from a cross between the 'Black Logan' (syn. 'Mammoth'), developed by Judge James Logan in California, and the

youngberry The youngberry is a complex hybrid between three different berry species from the genus ''Rubus'' of the rose family: raspberry, blackberry, and dewberry. The berries of the plant are eaten fresh or used to make juice, jam, and in recipes. The y ...

, which was developed by Byrnes M. Young in Louisiana. According to Judge Logan, 'Black Logan' was a cross between the eastern blackberry 'Crandall' and the western

dewberry The dewberries are a group of species in the genus ''Rubus'', section ''Rubus'', closely related to the blackberries. They are small trailing (rather than upright or high-arching) brambles with aggregate fruits, reminiscent of the raspberry, ...

'Aughinbaugh'. '

Youngberry The youngberry is a complex hybrid between three different berry species from the genus ''Rubus'' of the rose family: raspberry, blackberry, and dewberry. The berries of the plant are eaten fresh or used to make juice, jam, and in recipes. The y ...

' was from 'Phenomenal' x 'Austin Mayes'. 'Phenomenal' in turn is a cross of the 'Aughinbaugh' western dewberry and 'Cuthbert' red

raspberry The raspberry is the edible fruit of a multitude of plant species in the genus ''Rubus'' of the rose family, most of which are in the subgenus '' Idaeobatus''. The name also applies to these plants themselves. Raspberries are perennial with w ...

and so has a similar background to Logan's '

Loganberry The loganberry (''Rubus'' × ''loganobaccus'') is a hybrid of the North American blackberry (''Rubus ursinus'') and the European raspberry (''Rubus idaeus''). The plant and the fruit resemble the blackberry more than the raspberry, but the frui ...

' because it shares a parent.

Development and cultivation

The original

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was made in 1935 by George Waldo with the

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(USDA-ARS), who ran the cooperative blackberry breeding program between the USDA-ARS and

from 1932 until the 1960s. Selected in 1937 and tested in

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and California as "Oregon 609" (OSC 609), it was named "Olallie" and released in 1950. During the 20th century, the Ollalieberry was hybridized with the

Chehalem blackberry The Chehalem berry is a cross between the Himalayan blackberry and the Santiam berry, which is itself a cross between the California blackberry and the loganberry. It was first bred in 1936 by George F. Waldo of the USDA, who also developed the ...

to produce the Marion blackberry or ''Marionberry'', which when used as the fruit in a

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was named as the official state pie of Oregon in 2017.Marionberry, Oregon Raspberry & Blackberry Commission

In popular culture

"Olallie" means berry in the Chinook Jargon.Heather Arndt Anderson Olallie Lake in Oregon's

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is named after the Chinook term due to the abundance of berries in that area.

References

External links

{{commons category, Olallieberries
Olallie is one step from a Marionberry
* Finz, Stacy
"Olallie season is short and sweet"
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''. 14 June 2006. Hybrid Rubus Oregon State University Berries