O Peach

03/03/2024

03/01/2024

Subspecies
Modern classification distinguishes two or three varieties of the Peach species:

Prunus persica var. nucipersica (Suckow) C. Schneider - nectarine;
Prunus persica var. persica (L.) Batsch - common peach,
inside it stands out the form Prunus persica f. compressa (Loudon) Rehder - flattened (onion) peach;

03/01/2024

The species Common Peach is included in the genus Prunus (Prunus) of the subfamily Spiraeoideae of the Rosaceae family of the Rosales order.

8 more families (according to the APG II System) subgenera Cherry, Plum and Emplectocladus

order Rosaceae genus Plum species Peach vulgare

department Flowering, or Angiosperms family Rosaceae subgenus Almond

44 more orders of flowering plants
(according to the APG II System) about 60 more genera about 40 more species

02/28/2024

The botanical scientific name is “Persica Mill”. Posed from the Middle Latin language, obviously, through the Middle Lower German language. Serednyolatinsk ser. lat. persica "peach" in lat. persicum (derived from Lat. mālum, Russian “peach apple”), which is a form of the neuter genus of the Lat. persicus "Persian", created as Persian. Persa (from Greek Πέρσης).

In other languages, the name grew up. peach, white peach

Call it brosliva, bruskvina, broskvina - formed from the Middle Latin language (among the Slavic languages, mainly through Polish mediation).

Ukrainian forms on bre- are obviously associated with the old Czech name břěskev, the form “boroskva” - from the angle. barack "apricot".

In other languages, the name grew up. brosquina, brusquina floor. brzoskwinia, brzoskiew, broskiew, Croatia breskva, chesk. broskev, broskvoň, v.-luzh. brěšk, brěška then.

Current botanical science, however, points to a Chinese-like species - a species of Prunus Davidiana was discovered near Beijing, which may be considered the ancestor of this culture. The peach has long been growing in the wild in early-western India. In Persia and the Mediterranean region, a history of trade in seam shlyakh appeared in pre-Christian times.

02/26/2024

A tree with lanceolate leaves with a serrated edge.

The flowers are almost sessile, pink and red, appearing before the leaves develop.

The fruit is flat to elongated elliptical in shape, with a groove on one side, usually velvety. The stone (endocarp) is wrinkled and grooved with dotted dimples and a pointed apex.

02/25/2024

The word peach in Russian arose by borrowing from Lat. mālum persicum - “Persian apple”, followed by the transformation of the Persian adjective into a noun. Perhaps the borrowing occurred through Low German persik, Middle High German pfërsich.

02/22/2024

It is a cultigen that arose as a result of multiple introgressive hybridization between: Hansuan peach, amazing peach, David peach, common almond, Chinese plum, common apricot, cherry plum. Not found in the wild.