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Plant: Autumn Prince - Peach Tree

Peach Tree · Prunus persica 'Autumn Prince'

$40.00

Size: 5 gal

Light

Full Sun

Bloom

Spring

Mature size

25 ft tall25 ft wide

More about this plant

Autumn Prince is a very late ripening freestone peach released by the University of Georgia for the Southeast, ripening about 45 days after Elberta and extending the harvest well into fall. The fruit is juicy and firm with a crimson red blush over a yellowish red ground and a slightly acidic flavour. The tree is vigorous and productive with low susceptibility to bacterial spot, and it is self fertile. Like all peaches it grows fast to a rounded, spreading 15 to 25 feet, opens showy fragrant pink flowers before leaf out in spring, and needs full sun, well drained slightly acidic soil and regular pruning. It requires roughly 750 to 800 chilling hours. The seeds are poisonous and dropped fruit is messy.

Full Sun
Grows to 25 ft tall and 25 ft wide
Blooms in spring
Hardy in USDA zones 5-8
Deciduous foliage

Plant description

Autumn Prince is a very late ripening freestone peach released by the University of Georgia for the Southeast, ripening about 45 days after Elberta and extending the harvest well into fall. The fruit is juicy and firm with a crimson red blush over a yellowish red ground and a slightly acidic flavour. The tree is vigorous and productive with low susceptibility to bacterial spot, and it is self fertile. Like all peaches it grows fast to a rounded, spreading 15 to 25 feet, opens showy fragrant pink flowers before leaf out in spring, and needs full sun, well drained slightly acidic soil and regular pruning. It requires roughly 750 to 800 chilling hours. The seeds are poisonous and dropped fruit is messy.

Flowers: Pink flowers occur singly or occasionally paired in spring, appear before leaf-out, have 5 petals, measure 1 to 1.5 inches across and are pleasantly fragrant.
Foliage: Leaves are 2 to 6 by 0.5 to 1.5 inches, alternate, simple, with a long-pointed tip, toothed margin and 2 small glands at the base of the blade. They tend to curl inward along the central vein.
Fruit: A juicy freestone peach with 60 to 90 percent crimson red blush over a yellowish red ground, the flesh firm to very firm and melting with a very good slightly acidic flavour, ripening about 45 days after Elberta.
Bark & stems: The bark is gray with horizontal lenticels and becomes rough and scaly with age. Young stems are reddish and older stems gray.
Native range: China