Ripens late April. Use Biloxi as pollinator. Bloom often begins in the fall and continues during warm periods until normal bloom time. Recommended for planting in the upper part of the South because it requires a period of 800 to 1000 chill hours. Ozarkblue has consistently fruited in variety trials when most other southern highbush and rabbiteye cultivars have had partial to total crop losses to spring freezes and frost.
Pearl River is a hybrid of highbush and rabbiteye blueberries.
Fruit is firm, medium-sized, good flavor, small scar and somewhat darker than other cultivars. Flowers later than rabbiteye and ripens late April in South Mississippi. Fruit is medium sized with excellent scar, flavor and firmness. The color is blue to black-blue. Branches are stout rather than twiggy and easy to prune.