Bethel Grove Gardens · Variety reference
LSU Scott's Black
Biological type: Common (persistent)
Pollination: Unknown
Cutting reference$10.00
One-gallon reference$35.00
Reference estimates, not sale offers or mature-tree appraisals. Price evidence date not recorded.
No verified photograph yet
Fruit & growing traits
- Biological type
- Common (persistent)
- Crop habit
- Main; later than Celeste
- Main crop ripening
- Early
- Flavor profile
- Sugar-Berry
- Fruit size
- Large, round, plump
- Skin color
- Black
- Pulp color
- Red
- Hardiness / climate notes
- Humid mild-winter South; disease-resistant reputation
Reported growth habit: Unknown
Origins & names
- Geographic origin
- LSU program / Scott selection
- Possible origin
- USA (Louisiana)
- Synonyms / alternate names
- Unknown / not recorded
- Same or nearly the same
- Attributed LSU, not always in the official five named releases.
- Popular close brother
- Unknown / not recorded
- Known parentage
- LSU Celeste/Hunt × C1 pool (exact paper pedigree less clear)
- Reference year
- 1958
- First year (estimate)
- 1950s LSU numbered seedlings; named later in trade
- What the year means
- Attributed LSU selections. Not all were formally registered. Seed year is the 1950s program; names attached decades later.
Evidence & reference values
- Confidence
- Attributed LSU
- Key sources
- LSU features; GrowingFruit list; ChicagoFigs; FigBid
- Condit page
- Unknown / not recorded
- Notes
- Unknown / not recorded
- Commonality
- Common
- Market availability
- Garden center
Imported catalog record; not individually reviewed. Separate names do not necessarily establish distinct genotypes.