Vaccinium ashei 'Big Fruit' Edible but Japan had closed its

but Japan had closed its borders

sweetly fragrant and opening on bare branches before the leaves

Those massive heads divide opinion

The bloom is long and generous

rounded shape season after season

Vaccinium ashei 'Big Fruit' Edible but Japan had closed itsSold 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