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    The peach is a deciduous tree native to Northwest China. It bears edible fruits known as peaches and nectarines. Peaches and nectarines are considered different commercially, though they are the same species - nectarines lack the fuzz on their skin. In 2018, China produced 62% of the world's peaches and nectarines. Peach cultivation spread from Persia to Europe by 300 BC and reached North America in the 16th century through Spanish explorers. The Shanghai honey nectar peach was an important part of food culture and agriculture in the area where Shanghai now stands, though modernization led to it nearly disappearing.

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    The peach is a deciduous tree native to Northwest China. It bears edible fruits known as peaches and nectarines. Peaches and nectarines are considered different commercially, though they are the same species - nectarines lack the fuzz on their skin. In 2018, China produced 62% of the world's peaches and nectarines. Peach cultivation spread from Persia to Europe by 300 BC and reached North America in the 16th century through Spanish explorers. The Shanghai honey nectar peach was an important part of food culture and agriculture in the area where Shanghai now stands, though modernization led to it nearly disappearing.

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    The peach (Prunus persica) is a deciduous tree native to the region of Northwest China between

    the Tarim Basin and the north slopes of the Kunlun Mountains, where it was first domesticated
    and cultivated.[3] It bears edible juicy fruits with various characteristics, most called peaches and
    others (the glossy-skinned varieties), nectarines.
    The specific name persica refers to its widespread cultivation in Persia (modern-day Iran), from
    where it was transplanted to Europe. It belongs to the genus Prunus, which includes
    the cherry, apricot, almond, and plum, in the rose family. The peach is classified with the almond
    in the subgenus Amygdalus, distinguished from the other subgenera by the corrugated seed
    shell. Due to their close relatedness, the kernel of a peach stone tastes remarkably similar to
    almond, and peach stones are often used to make a cheap version of marzipan, known
    as persipan.[4]
    Peaches and nectarines are the same species, though they are regarded commercially as
    different fruits. The skin of nectarines lacks the fuzz (fruit-skin trichomes) that peach skin has; a
    mutation in a single gene (MYB25) is thought to be responsible for the difference between the
    two.[5][6]
    In 2018, China produced 62% of the world total of peaches and nectarines.[7]

    It is also found elsewhere in Western Asia in ancient times.[18] Peach cultivation reached Greece
    by 300 BC.[14] Alexander the Great is sometimes said to have introduced them into Greece after
    conquering Persia,[18] but no historical evidence for this claim has been found.[19] Peaches were,
    however, well known to the Romans in the first century AD;[14] the oldest known artistic
    representations of the fruit are in two fragments of wall paintings, dated to the first century AD,
    in Herculaneum, preserved due to the Vesuvius eruption of 79 AD, and now held in the National
    Archaeological Museum in Naples.[20] Archaeological finds show that peaches were cultivated
    widely in Roman northwestern Continental Europe, but production collapsed around the sixth
    century; some revival of production followed with the Carolingian Renaissance of the 9th
    century.[21]
    An article on peach tree cultivation in Spain is brought down in Ibn al-'Awwam's 12th-century
    agricultural work, Book on Agriculture.[22] The peach was brought to the Americas by Spanish
    explorers in the 16th century, and eventually made it to England and France in the 17th century,
    where it was a prized and expensive treat. Horticulturist George Minifie supposedly brought the
    first peaches from England to its North American colonies in the early 17th century, planting them
    at his estate of Buckland in Virginia.[23] Although Thomas Jefferson had peach trees at Monticello,
    American farmers did not begin commercial production until the 19th century in Maryland,
    Delaware, Georgia, South Carolina, and finally Virginia.[citation needed]
    The Shanghai honey nectar peach was a key component of both the food culture and agrarian
    economy the area where the modern megacity of Shanghai stands. Peaches where the
    cornerstone of early Shanghai’s garden culture. As modernization and westernization swept
    through the city the Shanghai honey nectar peach nearly disappeared completely. Much of
    modern Shanghai is built over these gardens and peach orchards.[24]

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