Nectarine - Prunus Persica
(var Nucipersica/Nectarina)

Nectarine's are recognisable by their smooth skin and are occasionally referred to as a shaved or fuzzless peach. Although Nectarines and their fuzzy siblings Peaches are regarded different fruits in a commercial sense, they actually belong to the same species - Prunus Persica. Several genetic studies have concluded nectarines are produced due to a recessive allele, where the fuzzy peach skin is dominant and the smooth recessive.

Just like with peaches, nectarines can have yellow or white flesh, and  be clingstone or freestone. Nectarines are slightly smaller and sweeter than peaches on average. The origins and history of the nectarine is unclear - the first recorded mention in English is from 1616, but they had probably been grown much earlier within the native area of the peach in central and eastern Asia.