Raspberry plant

Abstract

A new and distinct red raspberry plant particularly characterized by its everbearing fruiting habit by which fruit is borne on primocanes during the first year after planting and on primocanes and floricanes during subsequent years. The plant is also distinguished by its thornlessness and its tolerance to the Pytophthera root rot species. The plant displays exceptional early cropping in spring and fall with production starting about the first of May peaking during the end of May and the first part of June. Fall production peaks from early August until mid-September. The plant is one of high yield and produces continuously from May until December. Cropping is about one month earlier than Willamette and yields are greater. A marked characteristic of the plant is the purple coloration of immature leaves along the edge and on the ridges of the corrugation when exposed to the sun. The purpling tends toward violet, diminishes in area and ultimately disappears as leaflets mature.

I claim: 
     
       1. The new and distinct variety of raspberry plant herein described and illustrated and identified by the characteristics enumerated above.