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Orig. in Durham, N.H., by A.F. Yeager, New Hampshire Agr. Expt. Sta. Taylor x Nectar blackberry seedling is probably a parthenogenetic seed there-from; selected in 1944; introduced in 1947. Fruit: medium size; red; firm; primocane fruiting; ripens 2 weeks before the fall crop of Indian Summer. Plant winter hardy; very vigorous.Canes glabrous, slightly glauscous, moderately branched; prickles many, straight, short, stiff, color at base green, color at tip tinged, flush to slightly raised, elongated, inconspicuous; leaves ternate and quinate, slightly plicate, reflex folded, terminal leaflet broad ovate, often trilobed; apex long, acuminate; serrations dull, moderately coarse, shallow; basal leaflets sessile, slightly overlapping; length/width ratio 2 or nearly so.Outstanding characteristics: Many short stiff prickles; long, acuminate apex; presence of trilobed terminal leaflets. Roberts, O.C. and A. S. Colby. 1957. Red and purple raspberries: their idendification from plant primocanes. University of Massachusetts Agri. Expt. Sta. Bul. 523. 27 pp.
NAMED FOR= Durham Experiment Station, where it was developed