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Primocane vs. Floricane: How to Distinguish Between Berry Canes
12.06.2023 - 00:56 / gardenerspath.com / Sylvia Dekker
Primocane vs. Floricane: How to Distinguish Between Berry CanesYou might see certain terms on the tag of a raspberry plant you’re eyeing at your local nursery. Fall bearing. Or everbearing.
Perhaps a little confused, you move on, and come across a blackberry plant. Floricane fruiting, the tag reads.
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What does that even mean? What’s the difference? Does it matter?
All of this can seem confusing, but it doesn’t have to be. We’ve got all the answers laid out for you below.
Here’s what we’ll talk about in this article:
What Are Canes?“Cane berries” is a term used synonymously with the word brambles, which is what many of us call plants in the Rubus genus.
Bramble means thorn, but many new varieties of Rubus are thornless, so bramble is not inclusive of every type of blackberry, raspberry, boysenberry, and the like.
All Rubus plants grow canes, however, and thus – “cane berry” it is.
We’ll stick with that here! But what are canes, you ask?
A cane is a biennial, long, woody shoot which grows out of the perennial roots from a bud, the crown, or the root of the plant itself.
These shoots come in two types: primocanes and floricanes. Let’s find out what those are all about.
Primocane vs. FloricaneThe name of the cane makes it easy to remember which is which.
“Primocane” sounds a lot like primary, doesn’t it? These are what biennial shoots are called in their first season. These are mainly comprised of vegetative growth and will initiate flower buds in the summer and fall, usually for the next year.
“Floricane” is the name for that same shoot in the second season. It has the root word for “flower” in it, so you’d think the second
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