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Type = Peach. Heterozygous for yellow and nonmelting flesh. Flower: pink, showy, pollen sterile, blooms midseason, medium cropping efficiency. Tree: 750 hours chilling requirement, reniform petiole gland shape. Skin pubescent, white flesh, fruit size 2 5/8 inches X 2 9/16 inches, greenish white ground color, flesh medium firm, good eating quality. Stone size 1 3/8 inches X 1 inch, clingstone. Ripens 7 days before elberta. Moderately resistant to bacterial leaf spot. Per Okie: First grown by Henry Lyons, Columbia, South Carolina. Ancestor of many modern peaches including Elverta. Probably related to the Chinese variety Shanghai Shuimi. Per Hedrick (see citation): "Chinese Cling was found growing in the orchards south of the city of Shanghai, China, by Robert Fortune. Tree rather weak in growth, upright-spreading, round-topped, not very hardy, medium in productiveness. Leaves seven and one-half inches long, two inches wide; petiole one-half inch long, with two to five reniform, greenish-yellow, dark tipped glands variable in position. Flower buds large, long, obtuse, plump, very pubescent, somewhat appressed; blossoms appear in mid-season; flowers pink, one and one-half inches across. Fruit matures late; two and five-eighths inches long, two and nine-sixteenths inches wide, round-oval, compressed; cavity deep, contracted; color greenish-white changing to creamy-white, blushed on one side with lively red, splashed and marbled with duller red; pubescence thick; skin tough, adhering to the pulp; flesh white, tinged with red near the pit, juicy, meaty, tender, sweet but sprightly, aromatic; good in quality; stone clinging, one and three-eighths inches long, one inch wide, oval."