Description

• Harvest: Early
• Chilling Requirement:
• Low Chill: 150 chill hours
• Fruit: Freestone, flat in shape
• Skin: Pale yellow with red
• Flesh: White, soft, melting
• Origin: Prunus persica var. platycarpa aka Saturn peach, doughnut peach Originated in China, where it is known as pántáo (literally: “coiled peach”) or peach of immortality . The fruit made a significant appearance in the 16th-century novel Journey to the West in which the Jade Emperor tasks Wukong to take charge of the Pan Tao Yuan (‘Coiled Peaches Garden’). Later on, Wukong eats most of the rarer species of fruit in the garden and gains eternal life. The fruit was introduced to the United States from China in 1871