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Prunus persica 'Sweet Alice'

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Characteristics

A perennial hermaphrodite deciduous tree.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread endozoochory
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Cultivation

Yellow-fleshed, sub-acid, clingstone peach ripening in the early season. Origin: Modesto, Calif., by C.F. Zaiger, G.N. Zaiger, L.M. Gardner, and G.G. Zaiger. Open-pollinated seedling of two selections 3H192 × 104LB628. Introduced in 2001 as USPP 12083. Tree: upright, large, vigorous, productive. Flowers large, showy, pink to light pink, self-fertile. Leaf glands reniform. Chilling requirement of ≈700-900 h. Fruit: nearly globose, medium sized, sunflower yellow to golden yellow ground color, partially overspread with light red to madder red. Flesh firm, butter yellow to maize yellow, clingstone. Flavor very good, sub-acid, sweet. Ripens in late May in Modesto, Calif., 20 days before Sweet Gem.
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Yellow-fleshed, early season sub-acid, clingstone, peach. Origin: Modesto, Calif., by Chris F. Zaiger, Gary N. Zaiger, Leith M. Gardner, and Grant G. Zaiger. Seedling of two unnamed selections. USPP 12,083 issued 11 Sept. 2001. Tree: upright; vigorous; large; medium-dense; productive; flowers large, showy, pink to light pink, self-fertile; leaf glands reniform, medium. Fruit: nearly globose; medium to large; light red to red with sunflower yellow to golden yellow ground color; flesh firm, moderately juicy; sweet, sub-acid with very good flavor; ripens 20 May or 20 d earlier than Sweet Gem.
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Germination duration (days) 120 - 365
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 23
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Minimum temperature (C°) -20
Optimum temperature (C°) 20 - 33
Size large
Vigor vigorous
Productivity productive

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Prunus persica 'Sweet Alice'
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