Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Prunus persica
Common name
Peach (var. persica), Nectarine (var. nucipersica)
Family
Rosaceae
Where found
Sometimes naturalized from discarded seeds. Mainly Sydney area. Occasionally elsewhere, especially along roads.
Notes
Introduced deciduous tree to 6 m high. Fruit fleshy, edible. Young twigs hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 6–15 cm long, 15–35 mm wide, tips pointed, margins finely scalloped to finely toothed, surfaces more or less hairless. Flowers white, pink or red, with 5 petals, 10–40 mm in diameter, almost stalkless or stalkless, single or in pairs, appearing before the deciduous leaves. Fruit yellow, orange, or red, 20–80 mm in diameter, roundish, furrowed on one side, flesh white or yellow, edible. Stone deeply pitted and furrowed.
var. persica: Fruit hairy.
var. nucipersica (var. nectarina in PlantNET): Fruit hairless.
Family was Amygdalaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Prunus~persica (accessed 20 April 2021)
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