Green Peaches

by Sarah Loft

Title

Green Peaches

Artist

Sarah Loft

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Photograph - Photograph With Added Texture

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On Overlook Terrace in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York, someone planted two peach trees in a narrow strip of dirt (about two feet across) between an apartment building and the sidewalk. The trees are right against the wall and you need to look up to see the fruit hanging there.

Per Wikipedia The peach (Prunus persica) is a deciduous tree native to the region of Northwest China between the Tarim Basin and the north slopes of the Kunlun Shan mountains, where it was first domesticated and cultivated It bears an edible juicy fruit called a peach or a nectarine.

The specific epithet persica refers to its widespread cultivation in Persia, whence it was transplanted to Europe. It belongs to the genus Prunus which includes the cherry, apricot, almond and plum, in the rose family. The peach is classified with the almond in the subgenus Amygdalus, distinguished from the other subgenera by the corrugated seed shell.

Peach and nectarines are the same species, even though they are regarded commercially as different fruits. In contrast to peaches, whose fruits present the characteristic fuzz on the skin, nectarines are characterized by the absence of fruit-skin trichomes (fuzz-less fruit); genetic studies suggest nectarines are produced due to a recessive allele, whereas peaches are produced from a dominant allele for fuzzy skin

The People's Republic of China is the world's largest producer of peaches.

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Featured in the Images That Excite You group, August 2016.

Featured in the Art District group, May 2017.

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August 31st, 2016

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