摘要 |
An almondxpeach hybrid rootstock tree which is large, half-hardy, vigorous, upright to vase-shaped, with appearance of the peach but larger and more vigorous; the trunk is of medium size with vertical fissures and striations, gray-brown, with old bark brown with whitish overcolor; new shoots, together with young leaves, are a prominent red color; leaves are large, thin, smooth, and dark green with a crenate-serrate margin, medium length petiole, and uniform glands; blooms from medium size, half-hardy, plump, pubescent buds, mature buds are green and distinctly reddish on exposed parts; the flowers are large and showy, with large petals pink to red in bud, and rose color when flowers are fully open; the tree is a productive bearer of ovate, white-fleshed fruit (not useful to the clone) having a very hard, reddish-brown, peach-like stone with large ridges and grooves; and the tree root system is adventitious and deep-rooting with a large number of prominent, vigorous, thick, smooth, straight but somewhat tapering, main roots which radiate outwardly and downwardly from the base of the trunk.
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