WHITE NECTRINE
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.
Autumn into spring