A new cultivar of Rubus, emr 20171, that is characterized by its attractive, bright colored blunt conical shaped fruit that is well displayed and easy to detach, its excellent shipping properties and shelf-life that make an ideal variety for large-scale commercial production in the primocane season and as a double cropper; produced both on primocanes and floricanes following a period of natural or enforced dormancy, its vigorous primocanes that are held erect with developed lateral branches, its spines and thorns that are not prominent enough to interfere with picking and/or pruning, its berries with excellent eating quality both at harvest and after shipping, its berries that are sweet, aromatic, firm, and juicy with a good balance of sugar and acid, and its berries that do not darken and retain good texture after being chilled for transport.

A new cultivar of Rubus idaeus, emr 20172, characterized by its attractive, pale red, bright blunt conical shaped fruit that is well displayed and easy to detach (even in the pink stage), excellent shipping properties and shelf-life that make an ideal variety for large-scale commercial production as a primocane fruiting cultivar, its moderately vigorous primocanes that are held erect with developed lateral branches, its pines and thorns that are not prominent enough to interfere with picking and/or pruning, its berries with excellent eating quality both at harvest and after shipping, its berries that are sweet, fairly aromatic, firm, and juicy with a good balance of sugar and acid, and its early to very early fruiting on primocanes in late summer to early autumn and is not suitable for double cropping.

A new and distinct cultivar of Raspberry plant named Rafiki, characterized by its upright and somewhat bushy plant habit; freely branching habit; thornless stems; high fruit production; mid season fruit development; red purple-colored conical fruits; pleasant and sweet fruit taste; and good fruit postharvest longevity.

A new and distinct cultivar of Raspberry plant named Shani, characterized by its upright and somewhat bushy plant habit; freely branching habit; moderately high fruit production; early season fruit development; large light red purple-colored conical fruits; pleasant and sweet fruit taste; and good fruit postharvest longevity.

A new and distinct cultivar of Raspberry plant named ABB 120, characterized by its upright and somewhat bushy plant habit; freely branching habit; high fruit production; mid to late season fruit development; large light red purple-colored conical fruits; pleasant and sweet fruit taste; and good fruit postharvest longevity.

This invention relates to a new and distinct everbearing variety of raspberry plant named PS-09.040-26. The new variety is primarily adapted to the growing conditions of the central coast of California and is characterized by the following: early to mid-season primocane production with medium to large sized fruit of light-red coloration. Fruit is of consistent broad conic shape, releases easily from receptacle, is of low gloss and fair flavor. Foliage is slightly concave; medium green, glossy and foliage is equal 3 and 5 foliates. Primocanes have an absent or very weak waxy coat, medium thorn density, purple spines and have very weak anthocyanin coloration.

A new and distinct cultivar of Raspberry plant named ABB 118, characterized by its upright and somewhat bushy plant habit; freely branching habit; high fruit production; early and uniform fruit development; large red purple-colored conical fruits; pleasant and sweet fruit taste; and good fruit postharvest longevity.

This invention relates to a new and distinct everbearing variety of raspberry plant named PS-08.095-01. The new variety is primarily adapted to the growing conditions of the central coast of California and is characterized by the following: early mid-season primocane production with medium to large sized fruit of medium to dark-red coloration. Fruit is of consistent blunt conic shape, releases with some difficulty from receptacle, possessing large drupelets and is of good flavor. Foliage is strongly concave, medium green; possessing medium rugosity and mostly 3 foliate. Primocanes have a strong waxy coat, purple spines, fairly high thorn density and have weak to medium anthocyanin coloration.

A new and distinct blackberry cultivar that originated from seed produced from a cross between the female blackberry plant NZ 9629-1 (unpatented) and the male parent blackberry plant ORUS 1939-2 (unpatented). This new blackberry cultivar can be distinguished by its medium to high yields of medium-large and very sweet flavored berries with good firmness and color and that are the earliest ripening, completely thornless blackberry that we are aware of.

This invention relates to a new and distinct everbearing variety of raspberry plant named PS-10.028-58. The new variety is primarily adapted to the growing conditions of the central coast of California and is characterized by the following: mid-season primocane production with medium sized fruit of light-red coloration. Fruit is of consistent conic shape, releases easily from receptacle, is glossy and possesses very good flavor. Foliage is slightly convex, medium green; possessing medium rugosity, weak gloss and equal 3-5 foliates. Primocanes have an absent or very weak waxy coat, medium thorn density of small purple spines and have very weak anthocyanin coloration.