Origin: at Visalia, Calif., by Frank A. Vieira. Introd. in 1988. Plant patent 6118; 1 Mar. 1988; assigned to L.C. and E.E. Huerta, Reedley, Calif. Sport of Elephant Heart. Tree: precocious; productive; vigorous. Fruit: medium, 58 mm wide and 58 mm long; broadly cordate; skin greenish yellow with heavy gray bloom; flesh yellowish-orange near the skin surface to lighter orange in and around the cavity, firm, meaty; quality excellent; semi-freestone; in central California, ripens second week of August.
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