Tree large, spreading, low-growing, very productive; trunk
thick, smooth; branches stocky, smooth, reddish-brown with
light ash-gray; branchlets slender, often inclined to rebranch,
medium to long, with internodes dark pinkish-red intermingled
with olive-green, glossy, smooth, glabrous, with numerous
conspicuous, raised lenticels medium in size.
Leaves six and one-half inches long, one and three-fourths
inches wide, flattened or curled downward, oval to
obovate-lanceolate, rather thick, leathery; upper surface dark
green, smooth becoming rugose along the midrib; margin crenate,
tipped with small, reddish glands; petiole three-eighths inch
long, glandless or with one to five large, reniform glands
variable in color and position.
Flower-buds hardy, small, short, conical, plump, very
pubescent, appressed or free; blossoms open in mid-season;
flowers nearly two inches across, light pink; pedicels very
short, of medium thickness, glabrous; calyx-tube greenish-red,
campanulate; calyx-lobes obtuse, glabrous within, pubescent
without; petals round or broadly ovate, notched near the base,
tapering to claws red at the base; filaments one-half inch
long, shorter than the petals; pistil pubescent at the ovary,
longer than the stamens.
Fruit matures early; about two and three-fourths inches in
diameter, round, compressed, bulged along one size, with
unequal halves; cavity deep, narrow, abrupt; suture variable
in depth, extending beyond the tip; apex small, mucronate,
depressed; color creamy-white, usually with a blush toward the
apex; tomentose; skin thick, tough, semi-free to free; flesh
white, very juicy, tender and melting, sweet, mild, pleasantly
flavored; good in quality; stone semi-clinging to clinging,
one and nine-sixteenths inches long, one and one-eighth inches
wide, oval, conspicuously winged, flattened near the base, with
deeply grooved surfaces; ventral suture thin, winged, very
deeply grooved along the edges; dorsal suture grooved.
MORRIS WHITE
=1.= _Proc. Nat. Con. Fr. Gr._ 39, 51. 1848. =2.= Elliott _Fr.
Book_ 276. 1854. =3.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._ 22. 1897. =4.=
_Mich. Sta. Bul._ =169=:220. 1899. =5.= Fulton _Peach Cult._
190, 191. 1908.
_White Rareripe._ =6.= Coxe _Cult. Fr. Trees_ 222. 1817. =7.=
Prince _Pom. Man._ =2=:26. 1832.
_Morris White Freestone._ =8.= _Lond. Hort. Soc. Rpt._ =6=:410.
1826. =9.= Floy-Lindley _Guide Orch. Gard._ 189. 1846.
_Morris White Rareripe._ =10.= Downing _Fr. Trees Am._ 481.
1845.
_Blanche de Morris._ =11.= Mas _Le Verger_ =7=:171, 172, fig.
84. 1866-73.
_Morris Blanche._ =12.= Leroy _Dict. Pom._ =6=:171 fig., 172.
1879.
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