My oldest peach flowered: at year of planting and gifting (from Hubby) I removed the flowers, and I did last year as well. It was purchased as a Belle of Georgia, which as I read more I wasn’t thrilled about.
But I’m pretty sure I have a mislabel (which in this case is likely a Good Thing). For one, the flowers tipped me off: very lovely, showy flowers, not at all like nonshowy Belle flowers I have seen in pics. I wanted to try to find out more, and came across this article, Evidence for a Single Locus Controlling Flesh Color, Senescent Leaf Color, and Hypanthium Color in Peach :
http://journal.ashspublications.org/content/131/2/256.abstract
I thus dissected a flower (tripped over the umbrella stand in the dark, almost broke my ankle, but that’s secondary) and found that the hypanthium was a deep, rich orange. So I have a yellow fleshed peach it would seem, based on the abstract.
Thus in my case, I think my peach is an Elberta, based on flower type and the stock that Lowe’s sells (which is where Hubby bought it). This year will tell. I am not sure if I can reliably say what tint the senescent leaves had last year; so that part will also have to be further examined later this year.
Has anyone else ever tried this method of narrowing down the ID of a peach in flower, or from fall leaf color? Does it really correlate?