Blackberry varieties. Description, reviews and images of the plants

Black Jack (CPC-1VB) blackberry was presented as cultivar, which can complement or partial replace a lot of older thorny and thornless, creeping and erect varieties. The main goal of this breeding was obtaining the variety with combination of large fruit size, excellent firmness and sweetness.... read more

Black Magic

Good flavor and fruit quality, productive and consistent primocane-fruiting blackberry with uniformed fruit size

Black Magic (APF-77) originated from a hand-pollinated cross of Prime-Jim (APF-12) and Arapaho.
This cultivar is from Arkanzas. Plants of the Black Magic have better flavor and overall fruit quality, larger berry size and are more productive with more intense and consistent primocane-fruiting... read more

Black Pearl

Thornless trailing blackberry cultivar from the Agricultural Research Service breeding program in Corvallis

Black Pearl (ORUS 1380-1) is a thornless trailing blackberry cultivar from the Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service breeding program in Corvallis, released in cooperation with the Oregon State University Agricultural Experiment Station and the Washington State University... read more

Black Satin

Old strong thornless semi-creeping variety with juicy fruit and long blooming and harvesting period

Black Satin blackberry is old semi-creeping variety. It has powerful long canes (up to 5-7 m long) without thorns. Canes have dark brown color. Up to 1,5 m this cultivar grows upward, after will begin to creep. Branches grow very quickly (up to 7 cm daily). They make a lot of laterals. Black Satin... read more

Blakely

Medium-sized berries with sweet flavor, produced on very healthy plants with erect, thornless canes, that are primocane-fruiting

The new cultivar Blakely is thornless two-season harvesting blackberry from the University of Arkansas.
Plants have moderate vigor, primocanes and floricanes have erect stems without barbs. Size is medium - up to 140 cm in height and up to 100 cm in width when using proper tipping. Canes are not... read more

Boysenberry

Old cross from wild raspberry, numerous blackberries and Loganberry

The Boysenberry was selected in the early 1920s in California, US. This is a hybrid between a wild raspberry and a lot of blackberry cultivars, including Loganberry.
Boysenberry plants have thornless canes, which are thin and trailing, so bushes need to be supported by a trellis system. New... read more

Brazos

The proven cultivar, which had been the standard in Texas for 35 years

Brazos blackberry launched by Texas A&M University in 1959. Resulted from second generation of crossing originating selection between Lawton and Nessberry, selected in 1950. Brazos cultivar had been the standard in Texas for many years.
The stems are semi-straight, vigorous, thorny. Plants are very... read more

Brzezina

Early-ripening thornless erect-growing blackberry cultivar from Poland

Brzezina is thornless erect blackberry cultivar from Experimental Station Of The Institute Of Horticulture, Brzezna, Poland. This is the most early-ripening variety from all cultivars of Institute. Brzezina is very vigorous plant without substitution canes. Stems are thick and strong, up to 3,5 m in... read more

Buckingham Tayberry

Natural thornless mutation of the original thorny Tayberry

Discovered in Buckingham, UK, this is a natural thornless mutation of the original Tayberry. This variety is identical to the Tayberry in all aspects, but some growers notes, that taste of Buckingham is a little more sour than original thorny cultivar.
See full description of Tayberry.

Čačanska bestrna

High yielding cultivar with yields over 28000 kg/ha even in an extensive growing conditions

Blackberry variety Čačanska bestrna was bred by Dr. Miloljub Stanisavljević from the cross Dirksen Thornless and Black Satin. The cultivar was released in 1998.
Čačanska bestrna is vigorous plant. It produces 4−5 strong thornless canes, curved from the middle, with short internodes. Primocanes are... read more

Caddo

Wonderful thornless blackberry variety with Prime-Ark 45 as one of the parent

Blackberry Caddo (Sweet-Ark Caddo) is the fourteenth release in a series of erect-growing, high quality, productive floricane-fruiting blackberry cultivars intended for the fresh market developed by the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture. It has Prime-Ark 45 in pedigree. Caddo was... read more

Blackberry Caingangue is a cross between US variety Cherokee and cultivar Black 1 (cross between Shaffer tree and Brazos), presented in 1992 by Embrapa in Brazil, today is not used for commercial production.
Plants of this cultivar have vigorous erect stems. Canes are thorny. Budding occurs in the... read more

Caingua

Additional or substitute variety for growers, who cultivate Tupi blackberry

Blackberry Caingua was derived in Brazil by Embrapa Clima Temperado in cooperation with Arkansas University.
The stem of Caingua is erect to semi-erect, with short internodes. It has fewer and smaller thorns than Tupi or Xingu. The plants have low to medium vigor but are very productive. Leaves are... read more

Blackberry Camila (also known as HFM-5) is prickly primocane-fruiting variety from South America, Chile. This cultivar was breed by Chilean inventors Maria Pilar Banados Ortiz and Alejandra Andrea Salgado Rojas collaboratively with John R. Clark from Arkansas University, United States. The maternal... read more

Castilla (Andean berry)

Wild blackberry cultivar from Andean highland intertropical regions

Andean blackberry (Castilla blackberry) is a traditional crop grown by small and medium producers in the highland intertropical region such as Columbia, Ecuador and other Andean countries. Fruit is medium-large, has rounded shape, reaches a size up to 20 mm in diameter. Plants are look like... read more

Chesapeake blackberry, which has a Shawnee cultivar as parent, may be distinguished from othe large-fruited thorny varieties, such as Kiowa, by the recurvature of its spines and flavor of its fruit. It may be distinguished from Black Butte by the type of spines and its erectness, compared to the... read more

Chester Thornless

Very vigorous, thornless, large fruited, late ripening blackberry variety with long harvest season

Chester Thornless is a very vigorous, thornless, large fruited, late ripening blackberry variety from United States. Cross was made in 1968. This is one of the most popular blackberry variety in the world. It was recommended as a replacement for Thornfree cultivar.
Canes are semi-erect after the... read more

Cheyenne is old blackberry variety (presented in 1976 as cultivar for private gardeners and small commercial farming) from Arkansas, United States. 
Stems of this variety is very thorny and erect. Height of bush is around 150-170 cm. First berries ripen around the beginning of June (first or second... read more

Chickasaw

Large berries, high yields and excellent postharvest handling characteristics

Chickasaw is the tenth release in a series of erect-growing, high-quality, productive blackberry cultivars developed by the University of Arkansas, United States.
Canes of Chickasaw are thorny and erect, but a thorns density is less than that of Kiowa. Chickasaw can be grown in a hedgerow without... read more

Chief Joseph

Prickless semi-erect variety with soft flexible canes and giant berries

Blackberry Chief Joseph is a semi-erect variety with flexible canes, thornless. Blackberry Chief Joseph is a vigorous plant with strong canes. Canes can achieve 3-4 m in length. The leaves are medium in size, bright green in color. The flowers are white, large, 3-4 cm in diameter. The roots are long... read more