What does a peach tree look like

Peach tree is a kind of tree, 3-8 meters high; The crown is wide and flat; The bark is dark reddish brown and rough and scaly when it is old; Branchlets are slender, hairless, shiny and green, turn red in the sun and have many small lenticels; Winter buds are cone-shaped, the top is blunt and round, with pubescence outside, usually 2-3 clusters, with leaf buds in the middle and flower buds on both sides.

Leaf blade is oblong-lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate, 7-65438 05cm long and 2-3.5cm wide, with tapered tip, broad wedge-shaped base, hairless tip, a small amount of short hairs or hairless on the lower side of vein axils, fine serrations or coarse serrations on the leaf margin, and glandular or glandular teeth at the tip; Petiole stout, long 1-2 cm, often 1 to several glands, sometimes without glands. ?

Flowers solitary, leaves open in front, 2.5-3.5 cm in diameter; Pedicel very short or almost sessile; Calyx tube bell-shaped, pubescent, sparsely hairless, green with red spots; Sepals ovate to oblong, obtuse at the top, pubescent outside; Petals oblong-elliptic to broadly obovate, pink, rarely white; Stamens about 20-30, anthers deep red; Style almost as long as stamens or slightly shorter; Ovary pubescent.

Fruits vary in shape and size, oval, wide oval or oblate, 5-7 cm in diameter, equal in length and width, ranging in color from light green, white to orange-red, with blushing face, densely pubescent outside, sparse and hairless, obvious abdominal seam, short fruit stalk and deep into the fruit depression; The pulp is white, light green white, yellow, orange yellow or red, and the juice is fragrant, sweet or sour; The nucleus is large, detached or sticky, oval or nearly round, flat on both sides, tapering at the top, with longitudinal, transverse grooves and holes on the surface; Seed kernel tastes bitter, thin and sweet. The flowering period is from March to April, and the fruit maturity varies with varieties, usually from August to September.

Extended data

China is the hometown of peach trees. Around the tenth century BC, there was a saying in the Book of Songs Feng Wei that "there are peaches in the garden, which is really confusing". "Feng Wei" refers to the cultivation of peaches in the gardens north of the Yellow River and in the vast areas of Shanxi today. It is naturally cultivated artificially, indicating that there has been a certain planting scale.

Other ancient books, such as Guanzi, Shangshu, Han Feizi, Shan Hai Jing, Shilu Chunqiu, etc., all have records about peach trees, indicating that peach trees have spread all over the Yellow River valley in ancient times. The Book of Rites also said that peach was listed as one of the five fruits (plum, plum, apricot and jujube) sacrificed to the gods at that time.

After Columbus discovered the New World, peach trees entered America with European immigrants. However, because peach varieties are not adapted to the local climate, peach trees bloom more and bear less fruits, which greatly restricts their development. It was not until the beginning of19th century that gardeners introduced a walnut variety called "Alberta" from Europe that peach trees spread in North and South America.

At the beginning of the 20th century, American gardeners introduced more than 450 fine peach varieties from China, and in just over ten years, they selected fine varieties suitable for subtropical climate, making the United States one of the largest peach fruit producers in the world.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Peach (Rosaceae)