Saturn
Variety of Peach · Prunus persica
Flat, white-fleshed donut peach — very sweet, almond-scented, with a tiny stone.
Also known as: Saturne, Plattpfirsich, Donut-Pfirsich, UFO-Pfirsich
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3🇺🇸 USA 1980
Taste & characteristics
Taste
juicysweetaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Peento-Typ (chinesischer Plattpfirsich)
- Breeder
- Zaiger's Genetics (Kalifornien)
- Pollination
- self-fertile
- Fruit weight
- 100 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Distinctively flattened, doughnut-shaped fruit with a sunken centre; white, very sweet, juicy flesh with almond aroma, small stone, freestone.
Growth
Vigorous, productive tree; the fruit bruises easily and stores poorly.
Yield
High yields; a popular niche commercial variety worldwide.
Notes
Self-fertile; the best-known flat Peento-type peach.
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