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The '''olallieberry''' (pronounced oh-la-leh, sometimes spelled '''ollalieberry''', '''olallaberry''', '''olalliberry''', '''ollalaberry''' or '''ollaliberry''') is a cross between the [[loganberry]] and the [[youngberry]], each of which is itself a cross between [[blackberry]] and another berry ([[raspberry]] and [[dewberry]], respectively).

The original [[plant breeding|cross]] was made in 1935 by George F. Waldo with the [[United States Department of Agriculture]] [[Agricultural Research Service]], who ran the cooperative blackberry breeding program between the USDA-ARS and [[Oregon State University]] cooperative breeding program. Selected in 1937 and tested in [[Oregon]], [[Washington]] and [[California]] as "Oregon 609", it was renamed "Olallie" and released in 1950. While primarily developed in Oregon, it has never been very productive there and is therefore primarily grown in California.

Formally named "Olallie", it has usually been marketed as olallieberry, just as "Marion" is sold as [[blackberry#Commercial cultivars|marionberry]].

"Olallie" means berry in the [[Chinook Jargon]].

Olallieberries are tart and very popular in [[pie]]s in [[Southern California]]. The [[season]] is very short and some pie restaurants do not advertise having fresh olallieberry pie available, as the entire stock sells out via word of mouth. The best times, if not the only times, to order an olallieberry pie in these restaurants are the first two to three weeks of June. In coastal areas of [[Northern California]], the olallieberry season lasts from mid-June to mid-July. More recently, olallieberries have become available frozen, making them buyable most of the year.

[[Olallie Scenic Area|Olallie Lake]] in Oregon's [[Cascade mountains]] is named after the Chinook term due to the abundance of berries in that area.

==External links==
*[http://www.marionberries.com/lkf-marionberry-heritage-chart.htm Olallie is one step from a Marionberry]
*[http://www.swantonberryfarm.com/pages/Coast_ways_indivd.html More details]
*[http://www.ams.usda.gov/fv/ppbweb/manuals/cnblkbry.pdf Identifying varietal types]
*[http://giannini.ucop.edu/CalAgBook/Chap10.pdf Where are organic crops grown in California?]
*Finz, Stacy. [http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2006/06/14/FDGEFJBE8N1.DTL "Olallie season is short and sweet"]. ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]''. June 14, 2006.

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[[Category:Hybrid Rubus]]
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Envoy at 19:53, 3 October 2007