Desert peach is a native, deciduous, spreading, low shrub. Branches are short, rigid, and sometimes spinescent. The fruit is 10 to 18 mm long, covered with a dark brown tumentulose, and generally resembles a small, fuzzy peach. A thin, dryish pulp surrounds a roughened stone. Little detailed information is available concerning reproductive strategies in desert peach.
Vegetative regeneration is apparently the primary mode of reproduction.
This species is clonal and often forms expansive, dense thickets that may represent one individual. The fruit of this shrub resembles a small peach. A thin, inedible pulp surrounds the pit. The majority of seeds probably fall beneath the parent plants. Seedling establishment is apparently quite rare in nature.