White-fleshed sub-acid, freestone peach. Origin: LeGrand, Calif., by L.G. Bradford. Seedling of Diamond Princess (USPP7,066) × unnamed white-fleshed peach. Introduced on 23 Apr. 2002 as USPP 12,570. Tree: flowers large, showy, pale purplish pink, self-fertile. Leaf glands usually alternate but occasionally opposite, reniform. Spreading and dense, medium size, vigorous, very productive. Fruit: globose with slight axial compression, large, moderate red blending into moderate pink with slight orange yellow freckling toward apex. Flesh firm, crisp, yellowish white, freestone. Flavor very good, sweet, sub-acid. Ripens in late July in LeGrand about 3 weeks earlier than White Princess.
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