Narrative
Fruit: Large, proght, glossy medium red, excellent quality with good flavor, most similar to Tulameen by firmer, easy to harvest. Plant: moderately productive, vigorous, upright, sturdy floricanes with medium length, upright, stiff laterals with well spaced fruit, abundant red to purple primocanes, short spines on lower part of cane are not objectionable. Susceptible to cane Botrytis and to spur blight, may have some resistance to root rot, to date has not become naturally infected with raspberry bushy dwarf vius, resistant to common strain of North American aphid vector of the raspberry mosaic virus complex. HortScience 37(2):265COWICHAN (2001) - raspberry. Derived from a Halkomelem First Nation's word meaning 'warm country' or 'warmed by the sun'. The name originated because of a large rock formation, on the side of Mt. Tzuhalem, supposedly resembling a frog basking in the sun.The 'Cowichan' cultivar produces larger, firm fruit of good quality. Plants may have resistance to raspberry bushy dwarf virus and to Phytophthora-incited root rot. It is too soon, after its release, to predict level of acceptance.
Hugh Daubney and Chaim Kempler cultivar release Cross made in 1987, selected in 1990, introduced in 2001
English Translation= Halkomelem First Nation's word : "warmed by the sun"
NAMED FOR= Mt. Tzuhalem rock formation like a frog basking in the sun