Origin: in Palo Alto, Calif., by W.F. Wight, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture and the California Agr. Expt. Sta. Introd. in 1942. Libbee × Lovell; tested as USDA W35-37. Tree: vigorous, highly fruitful, leaf glands globose; flower nonshowy, small. Fruit: medium to large, highly uniform, truncate-round to oval-round; skin blushed or streaked red over half of surface, medium pubescence; flesh clear yellow, red at pit but not in flesh, firm, texture uniform; commercial canning clingstone; ripens between Guame and Sims; some tendency to drop at maturity.
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