nectarine

• “Today brought heaps of sweetness: A white nectarine from a gracious, fruit-loving colleague and — best of all — the news that a beloved friend does not need a scary and painful medical procedure.”

  Sweet litigants for life

• “Johnson says that nectarine is French, but gives no authority.”

  Notes and Queries, Number 56, November 23, 1850

• “-- The tropical fruit called the nectarine is really a variety of peach, but it differs from the common peach in that it has a smooth, waxy skin.”

  Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit Desserts; Canning and Drying; Jelly Making, Preserving and Pickling; Confections; Beverages; the Planning of Meals

• “The nectarine, which is simply a smooth-skinned peach, does equally well, many varieties bear heavily, and some produce fruit of exceptional merit.”

  Fruits of Queensland

• “Hence we may confidently accept the common view that the nectarine is a variety of the peach, which may be produced either by bud-variation or from seed.”

  The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.

• “* The nectarine is a species of peach, but produces fuzz-less fruit.”

  Blisstree

• “For thousands of years, the Utopia collection Wenrenmoke salty, there are several varieties of peaches, generally peel and hairy, "nectarine" in pericarp smooth; "peach" fruit is a flat discoid; "almond" is a food nucleolus peach, prolific in Central Asia and Xinjiang, China; "Bi-tao" is the watch spent in peach trees, there are many forms of petals, the Beijing Botanical Garden, there are hundreds of different varieties.”

  WN.com - Business News

• “And that for me is the point of the peach and why I hold its qualities above those of the nectarine – the feel of the peach's soft fuzz on lips, the way the skin puckers as I bite, a teasing prelude to the sweet flesh that will follow.”

  The Guardian: Tender delights

• “For peach and nectarine "mother" plants, workers remove the petals and pollen-producing anthers of every flower, leaving only the pistil.”

  The Wall Street Journal: When Apricot Met Plum...

• “Kingsburg sells 10 kinds of peacharines -- a fruit designed to taste like a peach and crunch like a nectarine, but with minimal fuzz on the skin.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Creating New Fruit

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