This unique freestone peach curiously has both green flesh and green skin which may blush a bit in full sun. Medium thick skin with succulent, sweet green flesh. Ripens in August at 3200'. We are not sure if this was a seedling or a purposeful graft, but it is delicious and hardy. It appears this peach is resistant or immune to peach leaf curl, a difficult disease to manage that kills many peach trees. It has been difficult to find old peaches in the frosty Sierra foothills. It's always amazing to find a hardy peach!

The grandmother tree lives near Camptonville but is now overgrown with fast growing invasive trees. It was planted near the remnants of both Maidu grinding rocks and the rusty fragments of a Gold Rush family homestead. The ground is still covered in Vinca, a persistent, drought resistant, purple flowered, perennial ground cover. It was popular in the 1800s and now runs wild all over California. When we see Vinca Major, as we traipse about the forests, we know we are at the site of an old homestead.