Origin: at U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Southeastern Fruit and Tree Nut Res. Lab., Byron, Ga.; selected in 1983; tested as BY81P584; and released by W.R. Okie in 1993. Complex parentage; sibling of Summerprince. Tree: vigorous; productive; moderately resistant to bacterial spot. Chilling requirement 850 h. Fruit: large; round; 70% bright red over an attractive golden-yellow ground with short pubescence; flesh yellow with some red in the pit cavity, very firm, melting, freestone, excellent eating quality and texture. Ripens with O'Henry at Byron, 2 weeks after Elberta. Flowers large, showy, pink; leaf glands reniform.
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