Peach Seeds chinese Prunus Tree seed
LATIN NAME: PRUNUS PERSICA
COMMON NAME: Peach
The peach velvets the small, deciduous tree with the narrow, glossy, toothed leaves and the masses of the soft-pink, five-petalled flowers that velvet the bare branches through the early spring, the round, downy, orange-yellow fruits with the blush following through the summer, the fruit velveting the warm, sweet flesh over the hard stone. The tree grows quickly into the open, spreading crown, and it stands the cold and the dry spells reasonably well. It likes the sun, and the deep, well-drained soil.
Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology
The sweet, downy fruit of the peach gives it a long place in the research on the temperate orchard fruits of the great stone-fruit group, and the persica species appears in the studies of the blossom ornamental trees and the fruit ripening. The work looks at the way the downy fruits velvet over the stone, the early blossom buds, and the seed biology. The orchardists value the sweet crop, and the growers of the home-orchard and ornamental fruit trees keep the species in their catalogues.
Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications
In the sunny garden, the peach velvets the summer table with the sweet fruit. The soft-pink flowers open through the early spring, the sweet fruits ripen through the late summer, and the tree makes the fine orchard and the blossom specimen. It thrives in the deep, well-drained, sunny ground. Pink-blossomed, downy and table-sweet.
To grow the Peach from seed, crack the pit gently, stratify the kernels in damp moss in the fridge for a season.
Crack the pit gently, stratify the kernels in damp moss in the fridge for a season, and give the young trees the open, sunny spot. The velvet fruit comes through the late summer. , then sow them in deep pots, keep the pots cool and lightly watered, and the young trees show up over the spring. The velvet fruit will sweeten through the late summer.
Edible Fruits, Fragrant Showy Flowers, Fast Growth, Cold Tolerant
used extensively as rootstock for peach cultivars; this variety is a vigorous grower and extremely disease resistant. proven resistance to nematodes, more resistant to crown gall than other rootstocks and widely used and preferred for peaches, almonds and plums.
Leaf: Alternate, simple, lanceolate, serrated, 3 to 6 inches long, often curved along midrib, shiny dark green above, paler below.
Flower: White, pink to lavender, 1 inch across, solitary but often close together, appearing in early spring.
Fruit: Fuzzy drupe, 3 inches across, yellow and red, hard, ribbed pit inside encloses the seed, very delicious and juicy, ripens in midsummer.
Twig: New growth is red and green, later turns gray-brown, buds are blunt and gray fuzzy, spur shoots present.
Bark: Dark gray, initially smooth with elongated lenticels, later splits and becomes irregularly scaly.
Form: A small tree up to 15 to 25 feet with a spreading crown.
Growth rate: Fast
Plant Type: Deciduous Fruiting Tree
Family: Rosaceae
Height: 15 to 25 feet
Spread: 10 to 15 feet
Shape: Rounded
Bloom Time: April
Sun: Full Sun
Drought tolerance: Moderate to High
Water: Moderate
Maintenance: Low
Grow in average, medium moisture, well-drained soil in full sun. Prefers moisture-retentive soils with good drainage.
Culture: Best pruned in late winter once the threat of extreme cold has passed.
Sowing Seeds:
Scarification, cold stratification and moisture enhance germination.
Scarify: Soak in water for 24 hours
Stratify: Cold 90-120 days, 40 Degrees F
Germination: Sow 1” Deep