DeSoto

2 year old plant

This southern variety recalls the name of the Spanish explorer and conquistador Hernando deSoto, who died in 1542 in Desha County in Southwest Arkansas. DeSoto was all over the South, and this variety should be planted wherever he went.  DeSoto—the blueberry—is the latest ripening (think South) of all the blueberry cultivars. The berries are an attractive powdery blue, sweet like all things southern, and exude the aroma of wild huckleberries. It should be married to the ONSLOW for best pollination. Zones 6-9