Vaccinium ashei 'Big Fruit' Edible 'Pam Puryear' is the soft-pink

'Pam Puryear' is the soft-pink small Turk's cap

John Frierson of Columbia

and the plant will seed itself gently where happy

The bloom is long and generous

Vaccinium ashei 'Big Fruit' Edible 'Pam Puryear' is the soft-pinkSold 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