Volume 46 Number 1 Article 1
Year 1992 Month 1
Title: 'Heritage' Red Raspberry
Authors: H. Daubeny, K. Maloney and G.R. McGregor
Abstract:
'Heritage' has become the world's
predominant primocane fruiting red
raspberry cultivar.
No other primo
cane cultivar has ever been as widely
planted and it has become the standard
by which all others are judged.
It is
grown in both the northern and south
ern hemispheres and in the latter is the
most widely planted of any cultivar,
whether it be floricane or primocane
fruiting.
Most of the fresh raspberry
fruit seen in northern hemisphere mar
kets during the winter and early spring
months is 'Heritage' grown in the
southern hemisphere, mainly in Chile.
In fact, the cultivar is largely the basis
of the industry in that country and has
been a major factor in the dramatic
increase in raspberry production there
in recent years.
Elsewhere in the
southern hemisphere, the cultivar is
well suited to southern and coastal
Australia and has allowed raspberry
production in areas unsuited to floricane fruiting cultivars because of the
lack of sufficient chilling hours.
In the
northern hemisphere 'Heritage' has
been responsible for extending the
fresh market season of raspberries
through September and into October
and early November.
In some regions,
such as central coastal California, production can occur even later in the
fall.
In Europe the cultivar is being
used successfully, on a small scale, for
greenhouse forcing of potted and coolstored
plants for off-season fruit pro
duction.
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