The Persians brought the peach from China and passed it onto the Romans. Alexander The Great called this fruit “pecta” and brought it in Europe .
In France the peach tree has been cultivated since the Middle Ages. It can reach 2 to 6 metres high.
The peach is a fleshy fruit with a velvety and downy skin.
Yellow to orange in colour, sometimes slightly red, its flesh is juicy, melting and perfumed.

There are white or yellow varieties .

The nectarine is a cultivar group of the peach that has a smooth skin, which is more easily bruised due to the lack of down.
Origin : France