Prunus persica (Linnaeus) Batsch (Q4466)

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Prunus persica is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Prunus
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Prunus persica (Linnaeus) Batsch
Prunus persica is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Prunus

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    taxon/id/Prunus persica (Linnaeus) Batsch
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    Prunus persica (Linnaeus) Batsch
    Prunus persica
    (Linnaeus) Batsch
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    pĂȘcher (French)
    common peach (English)
    Peach (English)
    pĂȘcher (English)
    1 reference
    Newmaster, S.G., A. Lehela, M.J. Oldham, P.W.C. Uhlig & S. McMurray. 1998. Ontario Plant List. Ontario Forest Research Institute, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Forest Information Paper No. 123. 550 pp.
    1 reference
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York. http://www.efloras.org/volume_page.aspx?volume_id=1009&flora_id=1
    e Asia
    Flowering Feb–Apr; fruiting Jun–Aug.
    roadsides
    fencerows
    abandoned farms
    streamsides
    canyons
    0–2300 m
    Trees, not suckering, 30–100 dm, not thorny.
    Twigs with terminal end buds, glabrous.
    petiole 5–10 (–15) mm, not winged, glabrous, sometimes glandular distally, glands 1–4, discoid;
    blade oblong to lanceolate, folded along midribs, often falcate, (5–) 7–15 × 2–4.5 cm, base cuneate to obtuse, margins crenulate-serrulate, teeth blunt, glandular, apex acuminate, surfaces glabrous.
    Inflorescences usually solitary flowers, sometimes 2-flowered fascicles.
    Pedicels 0–3 mm, glabrous.
    Flowers blooming before leaf emergence;
    hypanthium cupulate, 4–5 mm, glabrous externally;
    sepals spreading, oblong-ovate, 3.5–5 mm, margins entire, ciliate, abaxial surface hairy (especially along margins), adaxial glabrous;
    petals dark-pink, obovate to suborbiculate, 10–17 mm;
    Drupes yellow to orange tinged with red, globose, 40–80 mm, velutinous (glabrous in nectarines);
    mesocarps fleshy;