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Rabbiteye Blueberry
Vaccinium ashei
Rabbiteye blueberry is the blueberry that actually crops through long, hot, humid summers - the only type commercially grown across regions where neither lowbush nor highbush blueberries succeed. It needs strongly acid, lime-free ground and a second rabbiteye cultivar flowering nearby, since it is not self-fertile and depends on insect cross-pollination. On alkaline or calcareous soil it can still be grown in a container or a replaced acidified bed, watered with acid or acidified irrigation, since ordinary hard water pushes the root zone alkaline and brings on chlorosis.
Record at a glance
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full Sun · Partial Sun
- USDA zone
- USDA 7–9
- Soil
- Sand · Loam
- Moisture
- Dry · Well-Drained · Moderate
Vertical layer
Shrub- Soil pH
- 4.5–5.3
- Plant type
- Perennial
- Mature height
- 6–10 ft
- Mature spread
- 6–10 ft
- Plant spacing
- 5–6 ft
- Root type
- Fibrous-shallow
- Spread pattern
- None
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