Prunus persica (L.) Batsch
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Batsch
L.
(L.) Batsch
1801
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Prunus persica
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Prunus persica (L.) Batsch
Deciduous, small and spreading tree with rather open habit, up to 4-(6) m high when mature, not armed; trunk usually short. Lf petiole (3)-4-(10) mm long, glabrous; blade ± thin, lanceolate to narrow-elliptic, (50)-70-150-(170) × 12-40-(50) mm, short-acuminate, ± attenuate at base, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs above and below, serrulate to obscurely 2-serrate with ± cuspidate teeth, often undulate; stipules narrow-triangular, deciduous. Fls usually solitary, occasionally paired, not fragrant, on short lateral shoots; pedicel very short, glabrous. Hypanthium very broad; sepals oblong, 3-4 mm long, obtuse, tomentose, greenish purple, erect but finally spreading. Petals 5, erect to spreading, orbicular to broadly oblong, 12-16 × 8-10 mm, very shallowly emarginate, pale pink. Stamens slightly < or = petals; filaments pinkish. Fr. (35)-50-80 mm long, globose, sulcate, tomentose, greenish yellow to red, often much more deeply coloured on side exposed to sun, succulent and sweet; stone deeply pitted and furrowed.
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Prunus persica (L.) Batsch
Prunus persica (L.) Batsch
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1 January 2000
21 November 2013