‘Velluto Blue’ is a new rabbiteye blueberry
cultivar released by The New Zealand
Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited
(Plant & Food Research) and derived from
a cross between ‘Maru’ and ‘Briteblue’. The
new cultivar ripens late compared with most
rabbiteye cultivars available in New Zealand,
has high yield, large fruit size, and has shown
adaptability to different New Zealand environments.
The extended fruit harvest window
of ‘Velluto Blue’ does not make the cultivar
suitable for machine harvest when this requires
concentrated fruit ripening