Taxon:
Prunus persica (L.) Batsch var. persica
Summary
Verified:
05/27/1992
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Batra, L. R. 1995. Names of Japanese plants sorted by their Japanese names in Romanized Katakana and scientific nomenclature
- Burkart, A. 1972. El "duraznero de palo" de Córdoba, Prunus persica (L.) Batsch var. aposarca, nueva variedad y notas sobre el sistema de esta especie. Darwiniana 17:446.
- Cao, K. et al. 2014. Comparative population genomics reveals the domestication history of the peach, Prunus persica, and human influences on perennial fruit crops. Genome Biol. 15:415. Pages 1-28. URL: http://genomebiology.com/
- Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959-. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. Note: = Amygdalus
- Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage
- Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
- Ortega-Sada, J. L. 1987. Flora de interes apicola y polinizacion de cultivos.
- Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). URL: http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
- Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
- Xie, H. et al. 2006. SSR allelic variation in almond (Prunus dulcis Mill.). Theor. Appl. Genet. 112:366-372. URL: http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/122 Note: as Prunus persica var. vulgaris
- Yamamoto, T. et al. 2003. Parentage analysis in Japanese peaches using SSR markers. Breed. Sci. 53:35-40.
- Yoon, J. et al. 2006. Genetic diversity and ecogeographical phylogenetic relationships among peach and nectarine cultivars based on Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) markers. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 131:513-521.
- Zheng, Y. et al. 2014. Archaeological evidence for peach (Prunus persica) cultivation and domestication in China. PLoS One 9(9): e106595. Pages 1-10. URL: http://www.plosone.org/
Common names
English
peach – French
brugnonier – pêcher – German
Pfirsich – Pfirsichbaum – Japanese Rōmaji
momo – Portuguese
pessegueiro – Spanish
abridor – duraznero – durazno – melocotonero –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | widely cult. |
6 | Other | | | | | origin n. China |
Cultivated
(widely cult.)
Other
(origin n. China)
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Human food | beverage base | | Burkart, A. 1972. El "duraznero de palo" de Córdoba, Prunus persica (L.) Batsch var. aposarca, nueva variedad y notas sobre el sistema de esta especie. Darwiniana 17:446. |
Human food | fruit | | Burkart, A. 1972. El "duraznero de palo" de Córdoba, Prunus persica (L.) Batsch var. aposarca, nueva variedad y notas sobre el sistema de esta especie. Darwiniana 17:446. |
Medicines | folklore | fide Herbs Commerce ed2, as Prunus persica | McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland. |