Prunus persica
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Description
Deciduous shrubs or trees, up to 8 m.
Leaves lanceolate, 5-8(-15) by 1.5-2 cm, margin serrate, basal glands on top of petiole or at base of blade in the margin.
Flowers appearing before the leaves, often in pairs next to axillary buds, 5-merous, pedicels 0.
Petals pink.
Stamens 35-40.
Ovary hairy to glabrous.
Fruits globular, faindy furrowed longitudinally, 3-8 cm diam., exocarp hairy (peach) or glabrous (nectarine), yellow to red, mesocarp fleshy, yellow to red, endocarp thick and hard, deeply pitted and furrowed.