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The genus name Prunus is from Latin for plum. The specific name persica was given by Linnaeus because European botanists of the 1700s and 1800s continued to believe the Roman accounts of peaches originating in Persia to be correct. [39]
It is also known by the common names David's peach [1] [5] and Chinese wild peach. [1] It is native to China , preferring to grow in forests and thickets, on slopes in mountain valleys, and in waste fields, from 800 to 3200 m.
Prunus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs from the family Rosaceae, which includes plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots and almonds (collectively stonefruit).The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, [4] being native to the temperate regions of North America, the neotropics of South America, and temperate and tropical regions of Eurasia and Africa, [5] There are about 340 ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; Edit; View history ... also known by its common name African peach, is a species of flowering plant in ...
Among the most summery of the dessert spread is a peach cobbler. Since peaches are in season during the hot summer Which means burgers, hot dogs and sweet, sweet desserts.
Map of the etymology of "apricot" from Latin via Late and Byzantine Greek to Arabic, Spanish and Catalan, Middle French, and so to English. Apricot first appeared in English in the 16th century as abrecock from the Middle French aubercot or later abricot, [2] from Spanish albaricoque and Catalan a(l)bercoc, in turn from Arabic الْبَرْقُوق (al-barqūq, "the plums"), from Byzantine ...
Persimmon trees are typically dioecious, [2] meaning male and female flowers are produced on separate trees. [1] Some trees have both male and female flowers and in rare cases may bear a perfect flower, which contains both male and female reproductive organs in one flower. [2] Male flowers are pink [2] and appear in groups of three. [1]
They are known by many other names, including doughnut peach or donut peach, [4] paraguayo peach, [5] pan tao peach, saucer peach, flat peach, belly-up peach, UFO peach, Chinese flat peach, [5] hat peach, anjeer peach (meaning "fig peach"), custard peach, wild peach, white peach, pumpkin peach, squashed peach, bagel peach, or pita peach.