Peach#Nectarines

Features

The nectarine is a mutation of the peach with a smooth instead of the otherwise slightly furry skin. It is inside yellowish, with white nectarine light yellow. The core is to be distinguished from a normal peach kernel hardly.

The smooth skin is a recessive genetic trait, so peach trees can occasionally wear or nectarines grow from a Nektarinenkern a peach tree. Therefore nectarine are asexually propagated by budding on a peach or plum base.

The nectarine was already known for the New Age in China, Persia, and Greece, in England it has been cultivated since the 17th century. Popular nectarine was only in the last decades, mainly through breeding in the United States. It is mainly cultivated in Italy, France, Spain, Greece, California, Chile and South Africa.

With the widespread assumption that the nectarine is a cross between a peach and plum, is an urban legend. Per 100 g of the nectarine has 57 kcal or 240 kJ.

The seeds of the nectarine are very poisonous if consumed to excess, as they contain about 8 % blausäureabspaltendes amygdalin.