A high-yielding raspberry with easily harvested fruit adapted to mediumlow chill conditions in New Zealand. Origin: in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, by H.A. Daubeny, Agr. and Agri-Food Canada, Pacific Agr. Res. Centre. Meeker × Skeena; cross made in 1974; selected in 1977; tested as BC 74-11-41; introd. into New Zealand in 1983 and released there in 1991 by H. Hall, Riwaka Res. Centre. Tree: yield higher than Marcy and Skeena; moderate numbers of mediumstrong, semi-upright canes; floricanes dark brown with few spines; strongly attached laterals with high fruit numbers; good budbreak in New Zealand. Moderately susceptible to cane spot in New Zealand; susceptible to cane Botrytis; susceptible to infection by pollen transmission of raspberry bushy dwarf virus, but slow to become infected in New Zealand, where it is under high infection pressure; resistant to the common strain of the North American aphid vector of the raspberry mosaic virus complex. Fruit: smaller than Willamette and Marcy; moderately glossy, medium-dark red; mid-to late season, ripening 3 to 4 days later and peaking 10 days later than Marcy; processing use.
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