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A blackberry built in a lab, named for a county, addictive enough to spark interstate envy.
means A large, glossy, complex-flavored variety of blackberry developed for cultivation, prized in the Pacific Northwest for pies, jams, and general devotion.
from Named for Marion County, Oregon, where it was trial-grown after being bred by the USDA in cooperation with Oregon State University in the mid-20th century — a deliberate cross of two earlier blackberry varieties (Chehalem and Olallie). So the 'berry' is the honest old Germanic word for a small fruit, while 'marion' is pure geography: a county standing in as a surname for a plant.
- origin
- Bred in 1956 in Marion County, Oregon
- parentage
- A cross of Chehalem and Olallie blackberries
- regional
- Oregon grows nearly all of them
- flavor
- Earthier and tarter than common blackberries
marion county oregon — oregon county where the marionberry was first commercially cultivated and remains the primary growing region