Peach tree – Persica vulgaris Mill.
Description of peach tree:
Persica vulgaris Mill. Peach trees are native to the East and have long been cultivated in our country for their delicious fruit. Its leaves are broadly lanceolate, short-tongued, with a stem shorter than half the width of the leaf-plate. The flowers are pink, mostly solitary. Fruit with a bony seed (formerly known as a pome), i.e. the outer wall of the fruit is fleshy and the inner layer is hard-boned, with only the true seed inside. The fruit is longitudinally grooved, soft velvety, fleshy and rich in juice. The pericarp (the hard wall of the fruit containing the true seed) is rounded, slightly flattened, with two protruding ridges and many irregular grooves, making it very uneven, jagged and dotted with small holes. Its seeds are used to make a liqueur called persico, and the baracz kernels are taken in bulk, cracked open and cleaned of their hard, bony skin. The water distilled from its flowers is used against skin spots, and its fresh leaves are used to make a tea against urinary calculi. Source: Béla Páter, The wild herbs