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Interesting. Do people who research and speculate on such things feel the same about peaches and other large stone fruit?
by dpeck 6y ago
Interesting. Do people who research and speculate on such things feel the same about peaches and other large stone fruit?
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- ncmncm 6y agoPeaches, nectarines, apricots, cherries, almonds, and others I missed are all closely related species, and derive from fruit quite a bit smaller than the modern commercial cherry -- and unmarketably sour. So, no. The only animal that peaches have ever catered to is Homo sap.
- AlotOfReading 6y agoAs far as I'm aware, only peaches and nectarines are the same species there. They're all in the Prunus genus, but split across several subgenera.
- petre 6y agoCorrect, the peach tree is called Prunus Persicus and was brought by the Romans to Europe from Persia. And the wilder ones are not sour but bitter and have a very distinctive aroma.
- ncmncm 6y agoThank you, corrected. "The numerous forms grade into each other so imperceptibly and inextricably that the genus cannot readily be broken up into species." -- Liberty Hyde Bailey, 1898
- masklinn 6y agoThough it’s definitely true that they’re close relatives. A prof of Syracuse University has created trees which yield 40 different stone fruits each from almonds through apricots to peaches.
- gaoshan 6y agoHere is a fruit that is common in parts of the United States but was only ever eaten and spread by megafauna. They litter the street around my house, apparently all spread by Mammoths long ago (or by settlers building hedges, I just learned): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclura_pomifera https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclura_pomifera
- undersuit 6y agoAnother one, you've probably walked on its seed pods, that we've distributed even further than the megafuana that presumably ate it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_locust https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_locust