Olallieberry

Olallie is a USDA-ARS trailing blackberry, not a boysenberry selection, though it shares boysenberry's loganberry ancestry. Breeder George F. Waldo made the cross at Corvallis in 1935 in cooperation with Oregon State University, pairing 'Black Logan' (the loganberry-type also sold as Mammoth) with youngberry; the seedling was picked out in 1937 and trialled as Oregon 609 before its 1950 release. The University of California describes the same event more loosely as the USDA program crossing loganberry with a complex hybrid in the 1930s. The name comes from the Chinook Jargon word olallie, meaning berry. Oregon bred it but California adopted it: the Gizdich family put it into production at Watsonville in 1950, and the cool, foggy Santa Cruz coast remains its commercial heartland. Because the ripe fruit is soft and travels badly, it is sold overwhelmingly through u-pick rows, farm stands, pies and preserves rather than through supermarket produce channels.