Vaccinium corymbosum 'Draper'

Highbush Blueberry

Plant Type: Shrub

A handsome and productive blueberry shrub with nicely flavored high market-quality fruit and long storage life. An early mid-season producer with fruit ripening right after the early season cultivars and before most mid-season plants. This bushy compact shrub exhibits clean blue-green foliage in summer that changes to a spectacular red-orange in autumn. In summer beautiful moderately-sized powder blue fruit adorn the shrub. The fruit ripen regularly,have a nice firmness and a delicious flavor. Spring flowers are equally ornamental as numerous dainty white bells or upside down urns in spring. Prefers acidic soil. (Needs another plant of same variety in order to fruit most productively.)