Olallieberry

Olallieberry is the real marketing name for the 'Olallie' blackberry, released by the USDA Agricultural Research Service in collaboration with Oregon State University sometime between 1935 and 1950. It was selected from a cross of 'Black Logan' (also called Mammoth), a blackberry developed by Judge James Harvey Logan, also documented in this database as the creator of Loganberry, and Youngberry, also documented in this database, developed independently by Louisiana breeder Byrnes M. Young. Because Black Logan and Youngberry share the same distant dewberry ancestor, Olallieberry's full family tree genuinely traces back through two separate, independently-developed 20th-century American bramble breeding lines that both ultimately converge on the same 19th-century wild dewberry parent. The name comes from Olallie Lake in Oregon's Cascade Range, drawing on "olallie," a word meaning "berry" in Chinook Jargon, the historical Pacific Northwest trade language. It remains a genuine favorite in California specifically, closely associated with Santa Cruz County agritourism and pie-making traditions.