Peach
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The peach is a deciduous tree that bears edible juicy fruits with various characteristics. Most are simply called peaches, while the glossy-skinned, non-fuzzy varieties are called nectarines. Though f
Illustration Prunus persica clean no descr
Autumn Red peaches
Peach blossoms
Gray bark on trunk with lenticels
Drupe
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In botany, a drupe, or stone fruit, is a type of fruit in which an outer fleshy part surrounds a single shell of hardened endocarp with a seed inside. Drupes do not split open to release the seed, i.e
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…sprouting. Because of the hardness of the seed casing, peaches are called stone fruits like the others in the Prunus genus, but are more formally called drupes. Fruits range in color from greenish white to orange yellow, usually with a blush of red on the side of the fruit most exposed to the sun. Their shape…
The development sequence of a typical drupe, a smooth-skinned (nectarine) type of peach (Prunus persica) over a 7+1⁄2-month period, from bud formation in early winter to fruit ripening in midsummer
Assorted drupes
'Elena', a freestone prune plum