Peach tree is a kind of tree, 3-8 meters high; The crown is broad and flat; Bark is dark reddish brown, rough and scaly when it is old; Branchlets are slender, hairless, shiny, green, turn red in the sun, and have a lot of small lenticels; Winter buds are conical, blunt at the top, pubescent outside, often 2-3 clusters, with leaf buds in the middle and flower buds on both sides.
The leaf blade is oblong-lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate, 7-15 cm long and 2-3.5 cm wide, with a tapering apex and a broad wedge-shaped base, with no hair on it, a few pubescent or hairless hairs on the underside between the axils of veins, and fine or coarse serrations on the leaf margin.
The flowers are solitary, and the petals are oblong to broadly obovate, pink and rarely white; Stamens about 2-3, anthers crimson; Style almost as long as stamens or slightly shorter, ovary pubescent.
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The more important varieties of peach are: nectarine? , flat peach, longevity peach, peach. Among them, nectarine and flat peach are cultivated as fruit trees, Shouxing peach and Bitong peach are mainly for viewing, and Shouxing peach can also be used as dwarf rootstock of peach.
except for flat peaches, drupes are mostly round or oblong, and the fruit surface is evenly distributed with fuzz except nectarine. The flesh is white, yellow or flushed, and a few are red; The meat is soft, brittle or dense; There are different pits on the nuclear surface, which are important classification basis for species and variety groups.
The shape and size of the fruit are varied, such as oval, wide oval or oblate, with a diameter of (3)5-7(12) cm, which is equal in length and width. The color changes from greenish white to orange yellow, and it often glows on the sunny mask. The outside is densely pubescent, thin and hairless, and the abdominal seam is obvious.