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Prunus persica 'Indian Blood Cling'

 
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Prunus persica 'Indian Blood Cling' - Indian Blood Cling Peach, Jefferson's name: Black plumb peach of Georgia
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Common name: Indian Blood Cling Peach, Jefferson's name: Black plumb peach of Georgia
Family: Rosaceae (Rose)
Distribution: Garden Origin
Hardiness: USDA Zone 6
Life form: Deciduous tree
Usage: Edible
Comments: Spaniards introduced this novel peach to Mexico in the sixteenth century. By the next century, European explorers in southeastern North America were astonished to find this Old World fruit being grown by native tribes. This was possible because, unlike most fruit varieties that are maintained solely by complex methods of budding or grafting, the 'Indian Blood' can be grown easily from seed. Nomadic tribes and traders must have carried it north from Mexico. Thomas Jefferson ordered this variety in 1807 from Thomas Main, a Washington nurseryman, who described it as "very large and excellent." The fruit, entirely splashed and mottled with scarlet, tigerlike stripes, is sometimes twelve inches round. The skin resembles a beet: scarlet, tough, stringy, meaty, although pleasantly flavored and brisk.Text adapted from Fruit and Fruit Trees of Monticello by Peter J. Hatch.

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