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 ...
released by the
USDA-ARS
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(in collaboration with
Oregon State University
Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant, research university in Corvallis, Oregon. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate-degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees. It has the 10th largest engineering c ...
). 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.
Th ...
, 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.
Th ...
' was from 'Phenomenal' x 'Austin Mayes'. 'Phenomenal' in turn is a cross of the 'Aughinbaugh' western dewberry and 'Cuthbert' red
raspberry 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 fru ...
' because it shares a parent.
Development and cultivation
The original
cross
A cross is a geometrical figure consisting of two intersecting lines or bars, usually perpendicular to each other. The lines usually run vertically and horizontally. A cross of oblique lines, in the shape of the Latin letter X, is termed a sa ...
was made in 1935 by George Waldo with the
United States Department of Agriculture
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Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), who ran the cooperative blackberry breeding program between the USDA-ARS and
Oregon State University
Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant, research university in Corvallis, Oregon. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate-degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees. It has the 10th largest engineering c ...
from 1932 until the 1960s. Selected in 1937 and tested in
Oregon
Oregon () is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of its eastern boundary with Idaho. T ...
,
Washington
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* Washington (state), United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
** A metonym for the federal government of the United States
** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered o ...
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 to produce the
Marion blackberry or ''Marionberry'', which when used as the fruit in a
pie 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 Cascade Range 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"
''San Francisco Chronicle
The ''San Francisco Chronicle'' is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California. It was founded in 1865 as ''The Daily Dramatic Chronicle'' by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young. The ...
''. 14 June 2006.
Hybrid Rubus
Oregon State University
Berries