Yellow-fleshed, mid-early season freestone, slow melting peach. Origin: University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, Fayetteville, AR, by J.R. Clark. Ark. 708 × Winblo; crossed 2001; selected 2004; tested as Ark. 763; introd. 2012. USPP 26,920; 12 July 2016. Tree: flower large, showy, self-fertile; 800 chill hours; leaf glands reniform and located near the base of the leaf blade on the top of the petiole; resistant to bacterial spot (Xanthomonas campestris pv. pruni); hardy with good flower bud survival with mid-winter lows of-17 °C. Fruit: med.-large, 180 g; round; low acid, pH 4.5 and 0.26% malic acid, 14 °Brix; very firm flesh that is classified as slow-melting, which is very firm until fully mature then softens to melting; freestone; 90% blush with yellow ground color, ripens early July in Arkansas, near or just after Redhaven.
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