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Appearance characteristics and functions of peach trees

Appearance characteristics: small deciduous trees, up to 8 meters high, with reddish brown or brownish green branchlets and no hair. Buds densely covered with gray tomentose. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, 7 ~ 15 cm long. Flowers solitary, about 3 cm in diameter, pink. The fruit is nearly spherical, 5 ~ 7 cm in diameter, and the surface is densely covered with fluff. Flowering period is from March to April, the first leaf opens, and the fruit matures from June to September. Like light, drought, fertile and well-drained soil, not resistant to water and humidity. In summer, it likes high temperature and has certain cold tolerance, and can be cultivated except in extremely cold areas.

Garden use: Peach is a famous fruit, and peach trees and their varieties have strong ornamental value. Peach blossom is full of fragrance, which was described by the ancients in China as "peach flies away and burns its splendor". In the garden, the scenery of "peach red and willow green" formed by planting peach willows on the seashore is even more famous in the world.

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