Peach
Trademark: FIDELIA ™
Variety: Zaifuro
Species: Prunus persica
Origin
| Breeder, Place | Floyd Zaiger, California, USA |
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| Intellectual property | Mondial Fruit Selection, France |
| Type, Selection | clone INFEL 5621 |
| Property rights | registered for EU trademark |
Blossom
| Blooming date, -intensity | medium blossom period with medium to high density |
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| Fertility | self-fertile |
| Flower shape | rose shape |
| Frost susceptibility | low susceptibility of flower buds to winter frost |
Fruit
| Ripening time | medium, 7. peach week, 3-6 days after 'Redhaven' |
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| Scale, shape | large, round, symmetrically even half-fruits |
| Skin | mostly smooth-skinned, hardly woolly skin |
| Colour | cream white ground colour, 80-90 % pink red to red, glossy over colour |
| Fruit flesh | cream white, finely textured, very juicy |
| Taste | sweet-aromatic |
| Stone separability | freestone |
| Storage | good |
Tree
| Vigour | medium to strong, semi-upright, healthy and dark green leaf |
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| Crop load | high to very high |
Evaluation
The bright light red and white-fleshed peach is impressive with its regular high yield combined with good fruit size and attractive exterior.
In France and Austria this robust variety is recommended for organic agriculture.