Plant: China Pearl - Peach Tree
Peach Tree · Prunus persica 'China Pearl'
Size: 5 gal
Light
Bloom
Mature size
More about this plant
China Pearl is an erect white fleshed peach reaching about 8 to 10 feet tall and wide. Its pink flowers open quite late in spring, making it one of the latest flowering commercial varieties, and the large fruit has white melting flesh that ripens in late July. It wants full sun of six or more hours a day and a well drained neutral loam, and it is a high maintenance, rapid growing tree best placed in an edible garden where it also draws pollinators. Leaves are lanceolate, 3 to 6 inches long. The leaves and seeds contain cyanide compounds and the plant is listed as a problem for cats, dogs and horses.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 10 ft tall and 10 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 4-8
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
China Pearl is an erect white fleshed peach reaching about 8 to 10 feet tall and wide. Its pink flowers open quite late in spring, making it one of the latest flowering commercial varieties, and the large fruit has white melting flesh that ripens in late July. It wants full sun of six or more hours a day and a well drained neutral loam, and it is a high maintenance, rapid growing tree best placed in an edible garden where it also draws pollinators. Leaves are lanceolate, 3 to 6 inches long. The leaves and seeds contain cyanide compounds and the plant is listed as a problem for cats, dogs and horses.
- Flowers
- The pink flower blooms quite late in spring, making it one of the latest flowering commercial varieties.
- Foliage
- The leaves are lanceolate shaped, 3 to 6 inches in length and 0.8 to 1.2 inches broad.
- Fruit
- Large sized fruit with white melting flesh, ripening in late July.
- Bark & stems
- The bark is gray with horizontal lenticels and becomes rough and scaly with age. Young stems are reddish, older stems gray, and new growth at the tips is green and smooth.
- Native range
- China
