Flower-buds small, short, obtuse, plump, pubescent, nearly free; blossoms appear in mid-season; flowers pink, one and one-half inches across, well distributed; pedicels short, glabrous, green; calyx-tube red at the base, orange-colored within, campanulate, glabrous; calyx-lobes short, medium to broad, obtuse, glabrous within, pubescent without; petals oval, faintly notched near the base, tapering to short claws of medium width, tinged with red at the base; filaments one-half inch long, shorter than the petals; pistil pubescent near the base, longer than the stamens. Fruit late; two and one-half inches long, two and one-fourth inches wide, oblong-conic, somewhat angular, compressed, with unequal halves; cavity uneven, shallow, medium to wide, contracted, abrupt or flaring, the skin tender and tearing easily; suture shallow, sometimes extending beyond the apex; apex slightly pointed; color greenish-yellow changing to orange-yellow, with a dark red blush, splashed and mottled with red; pubescence long, thick, coarse; skin thin, tough, separates from the pulp; flesh stained red at the pit, yellowish, dry, stringy, firm but tender, mild but sprightly; good in quality; stone free, one and one-half inches long, fifteen-sixteenths inch wide, flattened wedge-like at the base, oval to obovate, winged, usually without bulge, long-pointed at the apex, with pitted surfaces; ventral suture deeply furrowed, wide; dorsal suture deeply grooved. CHINESE CLING =1.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 636. 1857. =2.= _Horticulturist_ =14=:107. 1859. =3.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 18. 1871. =4.= _Del. Sta. Rpt._ =13=:85, 86, 95, 107, fig. 4. 1901. _Shanghae._ =5.= _Mag. Hort._ =17=:464. 1851. =6.= _Gard. Chron._ 693. 1852. =7.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 641. 1857. _Chinese Peach._ =8.= _Horticulturist_ N. S. =3=:286, 472. 1853. _Shanghai._ =9.= Hogg _Fruit Man._ 231. 1866. _De Chang-Hai._ =10.= Mas _Le Verger_ =7=:211, 212, fig. 104. 1866-73.