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Which peaches might be wild type or feral escapes from cultivation is still an open scientific question. [15] The authors of the Flora of China wrote in 2003 that completely wild peach trees no longer exist and this view is widely accepted.
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 ...
Prunus davidiana [4] [5] [6] [3] (syn. Amygdalus davidiana, [1] Persica davidiana, [1] [4] Prunus persica var. davidiana) [1] is a species in the genus Prunus in the family Rosaceae.It is also known by the common names David's peach [1] [5] and Chinese wild peach. [1]
Rosaceae (/ r oʊ ˈ z eɪ s iː. iː,-s i. aɪ,-s i. eɪ /), [5] [6] the rose family, is a family of flowering plants that includes 4,828 known species in 91 genera. [7] [8] [9]The name is derived from the type genus Rosa.
Prunus armeniaca is a small tree, 8–12 m (26–39 ft) tall, with a trunk up to 40 cm (16 in) in diameter and a dense, spreading canopy. The leaves are ovate, 5–9 cm (2.0–3.5 in) long and 4–8 cm (1.6–3.1 in) wide, with a rounded base, a pointed tip and a finely serrated margin.
Bactris gasipaes is a species of palm native to the tropical forests of Central and South America.It is well spread in these regions, where it is often cultivated by smallholders in agroforestry systems or more rarely, in monoculture.
Edible gymnosperm seeds are often given fruit names, e.g., ginkgo nuts and pine nuts. Botanically, a cereal grain, such as corn, rice, or wheat is a kind of fruit (termed a caryopsis). However, the fruit wall is thin and fused to the seed coat, so almost all the edible grain-fruit is actually a seed. [7]
Halocynthia aurantium, commonly known as the sea peach, is a species of tunicate in the order Stolidobranchia.Sea peaches are commonly found in the northern Pacific Ocean, ranging from the Arctic Sea south to Puget Sound, and most common in the Bering Sea at a depth of 40 to 100 metres.