House peach-tree
Persica vulgaris. The native land - northern China.
The peach belongs to the same family Рrunus, as a plum, an apricot and a cherry.
Peach is a low straight-stemmed tree with the branches forming a wide crone, in container culture it seldom exceeds 2 m in height.
Slim flexible peach-tree blossoms in February - March before breaking of buds, it is decorative since early spring till the autumn, when fruits ripen. Leaves are simple, petiolar, spear-shaped, length 7-12 centimeters, width 2-3,5, with a serrate edge, green. Flowers are usually pink, single or binate, 5- petalled, 3-4 centimeters in diameter, on a short pedicel. Decorative varieties have white, red or striped, simple, double and semidouble flowers. There are also decorative varieties with red leaves, and also with hanging, weeping sprout.
Fruit are juicy stone-fruit with a thin peel, globular, with a furrow on one side, velvety (true peaches) or naked (nectarine). A stone is wrinkled-furrowed with dot dimples. A stone can be adnate to a pulp or free.