Slightly bigger than a 35mm film canister.
We found this Peach Tree next to the road and thought how nice it would be to stop next to the road and have a fresh peach to eat during peach season!
When Silvia met Rolf a very long time ago (15 years ago!), if you asked Rolf how he was he would say "just peachy". He got that from the old movie Judge Dred (only the oldies will know what we are talking about!). So we thought this spot was just "peachy" with a "Peach" tree!
In the Winter months, you'll find a bare tree, as the Peach Tree is decidous and loses its leaves in winter. But in the Spring, you'll find the bare tree has been transformed into a beautiful tree with its pink blossoms.
The peach tree (Prunus persica) is a species native to China that has an edible, juicy fruit around a hard pip or sead. It is a deciduous tree which grows to about 4–10m high. The peach tree belongs to the subfamily Prunoideae of the family
Rosaceae. It is classified with the almond in the subgenus Amygdalus within the genus Prunus, distinguished from the other subgenera by the corrugated seed shell.
The specific name persica, along with the word "peach" itself and its cognates in many European languages, derives from an early European belief that peaches were native to Persia (now Iran). The modern botanical consensus is that they originate in China, and were introduced to Persia and the Mediterranean region along the "Silk Road" before Christian times. Cultivated peaches are divided into clingstones and freestones, depending on whether the flesh sticks to the stone or not; both can have either white or yellow flesh. Peaches with white flesh typically are very sweet with little acidity, while yellow-fleshed peaches typically have an acidic tang coupled with sweetness. Both colours often have some red on their skin.