A perennial monoecious deciduous tree. It grows 4-8m high.
Good quality, large, common type, brown fruit with yellow to gold flesh. Origin: Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, by E.N. O’Rourke. Celeste × C1; crossed 1957; selected 1961; tested as L57-13-121; released 2010. Tree: small; growth habit semi-upright; leaves large, palmate with 5-7 lobes; some resistance to fig leaf rust and leaf spot. Fruit: large, 30-40 mm diameter, 27.5 g; eye partially closed; tan to brown with darker brown stripe often visible; flesh yellow to gold, with some red near center when ripe; 17.5 °Brix; ripens over a 15-day period beginning first week of July in Baton Rouge.
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