You can find several raspberry species in the wild in Oregon, all of which fruit on the floricanes: Everbearing raspberry plants can be pruned to produce one crop (primocane only) or two crops (early summer on floricanes and late summer and autumn on new primocanes). Then the remaining cane base will overwinter and will fruit as a floricane in its second year, but will have a much lower yield than the summer-bearing types. The portion of the primocane that fruited dies back in late autumn or winter. Primocane-fruiting (fall-fruiting, or everbearing) raspberries have a similar cane development and life cycle, except the tips of the primocanes flower and fruit in the late summer or fall of their first year (Figure 3).

After the planting year, raspberry plants will have both types - primocanes and floricanes - at the same time (Figure 2). They overwinter and then produce flowers and fruit in their second year, at which point the canes are called floricanes. These primocanes grow throughout their first year and then go dormant in the fall. Primocanes grow from buds on the crown and the roots (Figure 2). Floricane-fruiting, or summer-bearing, raspberries produce vegetative canes, called primocanes, in the spring.

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