South Haven
Variety of Peach · Prunus persica
Early yellow-fleshed Haven variety, a forerunner of the famous Redhaven line.
Also known as: Southaven
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3🇺🇸 USA 1935
Taste & characteristics
Taste
juicysweetaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Haven-Reihe (Michigan)
- Breeder
- Stanley Johnston (Michigan State Univ.)
- Pollination
- self-fertile
- Fruit weight
- 150 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Medium, round fruit, yellow with red blush; juicy yellow flesh, freestone.
Growth
Winter-hardy tree from the Michigan programme that produced the Haven varieties.
Yield
Good yields; a historically important early variety.
Notes
Self-fertile; named after the town of South Haven, Michigan.
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