Vaccinium ashei 'Big Fruit' Edible sometimes in considerable numbers

sometimes in considerable numbers

The bloom is long and generous

and the plant will seed itself gently where happy

That same toxicity is a quiet garden virtue now

Vaccinium ashei 'Big Fruit' Edible sometimes in considerable numbersSold as a 3 gallon plant, pick up only. The rabbiteye blueberry is the blueberry of the South, a big, tough, heat loving shrub native from the Carolinas to the Gulf, long grown as Vaccinium ashei and now often filed under Vaccinium virgatum. The odd common name comes from the fruit: rabbiteye berries blush pink before they ripen, a soft pink eye that darkens to dusky blue, and the color was thought to resemble the eye of an albino rabbit. The species