Origin: in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, by H.A. Daubeny, Agr. Canada Res. Sta. BC 64-9-81(Creston × Willamette) × Skeena; cross made in 1974; selected in 1978; tested as BC 74-12-42; introd. in 1987. Tree: Fruit: very large; conic; medium red; firm; drupelets numerous; good fresh eating quality; suitable for processing; fairly easy separation from receptacle and can be machine-harvested; ripens several days later than Willamette and Skeena; some resistance to pre-and postharvest rots. Plant very high yielder; vigorous and fairly upright growth habit, but laterals tend to droop because of large numbers of fruit; primocanes reasonably numerous, fairly upright, glabrous, nonwaxy; purple spines largely restricted to basal portions; floricanes fairly erect, yellow-brown with basal cracking. Susceptible to cane Botrytis, spur blight, cane spot, and root rot; slow to become infected by pollen transmission of raspberry bushy dwarf virus; resistant to the common strain of North American aphid vector of the raspberry mosaic virus complex; relatively winter hardy in the Pacific Northwest.
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