PEACH
The peach is a round, coloured, juicy fruit, typically eaten in summer. Many countries produce peaches, reason why we can eat this fruit all throughout the year. It is used for consumption in fresh and for industry, specially tinned.
The peach is one of the most important fruits, as much in production as in value, belonging to the group of fruits of greater production in the world: apple, citruses and bananas. he peach is a type of fruit which is botanically called drupe. Great size, rounded fruit, with a velvet thin and easy to peel skin. Its flesh is between a yellowish and whitish colour, sweet, juicy, giving off a pleasant aroma. Depending on the variety, the stones are broken. Peaches are typical summer fruits; their availability centres between Feb and April. The peach is a versatile fruit that can be used to garnish meats, stewed fruit, jams, etc. According to the type of fruit there exist two groups: those with soft flesh, freestoned, destined for consumption in fresh, and those with firm flesh, strongly adhered to the stone and destined both for consumption in fresh and for the industry, preferably for tinned fruit.
NECTRINE (Yellow/White)
Nectarine, smooth-skinned peach of the rose family that is grown throughout the warmer temperate regions of both the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
Nectarine and peach trees are virtually indistinguishable. Small to medium-sized, the trees seldom reach 6.5 metres (21 feet) in height. Under cultivation, however, they are usually kept between 3 and 4 metres (10 and 13 feet) tall by pruning. The leaves are glossy green, lance-shaped, and long pointed; they usually have glands at their bases that secrete a fluid to attract ants and other insects. The flowers, borne in the leaf axils, are arranged singly or in groups of two or three at nodes along the shoots of the previous season’s growth.