Suncrest
Variety of Peach · Prunus persica
Aromatic Californian summer peach of intense flavour, famed from 'Epitaph for a Peach'.
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3🇺🇸 USA 1959
Taste & characteristics
Taste
juicysweetaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Merrill 49 x J.H. Hale-Abkömmling
- Breeder
- Fred Anderson (Kalifornien)
- Pollination
- self-fertile
- Fruit weight
- 200 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Large, round fruit with extensive red blush; very juicy, aromatic yellow flesh, freestone.
Growth
Vigorous tree; the soft, aromatic fruit ships poorly and has largely left commercial trade.
Yield
Good yields; fruit has only a short shelf life at full ripeness.
Notes
Self-fertile; a cult classic for flavour quality, celebrated by David Mas Masumoto.
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