Elberta
Variety of Peach · Prunus persica
Historic American classic: a large, yellow-fleshed freestone for eating and canning.
Also known as: Early Elberta
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Taste & characteristics
Taste
juicysweetaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Sämling von Chinese Cling
- Breeder
- Samuel H. Rumph (Georgia)
- Pollination
- self-fertile
- Fruit weight
- 170 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Large, round to oval fruit, golden-yellow with a red cheek; firm, juicy yellow flesh, freestone.
Growth
Vigorous, hardy tree; for over a century one of the most widely grown peaches worldwide.
Yield
High, reliable yields; long the leading cultivar of US production.
Notes
Self-fertile; ancestor of countless later cultivars.
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