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Kotata is a blackberry cultivar with a diverse ancestry in a few Rubus species including western and eastern North American blackberry species and red raspberry. Kotata was developed by the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service in Corvallis, Oregon, United States in their cooperative breeding program with Oregon State University. In 1984, Kotata was released as a potential replacement for the Marion blackberry with better cold tolerance and fruit firmness. However, while the taste of the Kotata is unique and invariably good, it did not replace Marion but was used as a slightly earlier complement to Marion. Kotata was selected from a cross of the two parents OSC 743 [Pacific x Boysen] x OSC 877 [Jenner x Eldorado]. The pedigree of Kotata has Boysenberry, wild Pacific Northwest blackberries, an Eastern U.S. blackberry species and Loganberry in its background. While it was released as a cultivar in 1984, it was first selected as OSC 1050 in 1951 and was grown commercially under that name. Kotata has been grown primarily in the Pacific Northwest region of North America and in the United Kingdom. Oregon has 6,900 farmed acres of blackberries, producing 42.6 million pounds in 2006, making it the leading blackberry producer in the world.
- Color: Deep black
- Season: late June - July in Oregon, USA
- Seed size: Medium
- Size: 6g to 7g
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