Origin: in Red Bluff, Calif., by Grant Merrill. Introd. in 1961. Plant patent 2239; 12 Mar. 1963. J.H. Hale × Flaming Gold nectarine) o.p.2, discovered in 1956; selected in 1960; tested as L-152. Tree: size medium; productive; chilling requirement moderately low; leaf glands reniform; flower pink, self-fertile. Fruit: large; skin more brilliant red than Gemfree; flesh yellow with red near pit, very firm, flavor fine, freestone; ripens about 45 days later than Gemfree, which it resembles, and about 5 days before J.H. Hale and with Suncrest; shipping quality good.
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