Nectarines

Your friend asks you to describe what a nectarine looks like, because he has never seen one. You aren t a very good artist so you say the foUowing ... 

Picture a pecLch in your mind, and now picture a plum in your mind. Well, a nectarine has features of both the inside tastes like a peach, but the outside is smooth like a plum. So take your image of a peach together with your image of a plum and meld them together in your mind into one image. That s a nectarine. 

It is important to realize that a nectarine does not switch back and forth every second from being a peach to being a plum. A nectarine is a nectarine all of the time. 

The image of a peach is not adequate to describe a nectarine. Neither is the image of a plum. But by imagining both together at the same time, you can get a sense of what a nectarine looks like. 

The problem with drawing molecules is similar to the problem above with the nectarine. No single drawing adequately describes the nature of the electron density spread out over the molecule. To solve this problem, we draw several drawings and then meld them together in our mind into one image. Just like the nectarine. 

Recall that we used the analogy of a nectarine (being a hybrid between a peach and plum) to explain the concept of resonance. Now, imagine that we create a new type of fruit that is a hybrid between three fruits a peach, a plum, and a kiwi. Suppose that the hybrid fruit that we produce has the following character 65% peach character, 34% plum character, and 1% kiwi character. This hybrid fruit will look almost exactly like a nectarine, because the amount of kiwi character is too small to have an effect on the nature of the resulting hybrid. Even though this fruit is actually a hybrid of three fruits, nevertheless it will look like a hybrid of only two fruits— because the kiwi character is insignificant. ... 

Fruits (except citrus and melons) Peach, loquat, kiwi, apple, pear, persimmon, nectarine, apricot, cherry, UME, strawberry, grape, ginkgo nut, chestnut, walnuts... 

Apricots, cherries, peaches (including nectarines and similar hybrids), plums (Prunus domestica including all subspecies), cornel cherries... 

Nectarines Leaf curl Taphrina deformans Bordeaux mixture... 

Trimers Berries Plums Apples Peaches/apricot/ nectarines Kiwi... 

Tomas-Barberan FA, Gil MI, Cremin P, Waterhouse AL, Hess-Pierce B and Kader AA. 2001. HPLC-DAD-ESIMS analysis of phenolic compounds in nectarines, peaches, and plums. J Agric Food Chem. 49(10) 4748 t760. 

Gil MI, Tomas-Barberan FA, Hess-Pierce B and Kader AA. 2002. Antioxidant capacities, phenolic compounds, carotenoids, and vitamin C contents of nectarine, peach, and plum cultivars from California. J Agric Food Chem 50(17) 4976-4982. 

Target species Stone fruit including peaches, nectarines, apricots, plums, and almonds. 

American Phytopathological Society. Plum Pox A Devastating Threat to Peaches, Apricots, Plums, Nectarines, Almonds and Sweet and Tart Cherries. Undated Fact Sheet. 

In total, 12,264 samples were collected and analyzed for pesticide residues in the 2001 PDP (USDA, 2003). Specific fruits and vegetables analyzed in the 2001 PDP included apples, bananas, broccoli, carrots, celery, cherries, grapes, green beans, lettuce, mushrooms, nectarines, oranges, peaches, pineapples, potatoes, canned sweet corn, canned sweet peas, and canned tomato paste. Fruits and vegetable samples were taken most commonly (9903 samples), followed by beef (911 samples), enriched milled rice (689 samples), poultry (464... 

There do not appear to be any reports of NMR correlations with maturity in nectarine or peach. 

Apples 300 Pears 302 Plums 304 Cherries 306 Peaches and nectarines 308 Strawberries 310 Raspberries 312 Blackberries and hybrid berries 314 Black currants 316 Red and white currants 318 Gooseberries... 

Perfect peach Peaches and nectarines sold in supermarkets are usually harvested before they are ripe, and transported in cold storage. Grow your own to experience perfect, juicy ripeness. 

Plant peach or nectarine trees in early spring or fall. Follow the advice on soil preparation given for apples (see p297). 

Peaches and nectarines are very similar to sour cherries in that they fruit on young wood, and are pruned in a similar way (seep.305). Carry out all pruning between late spring and early fall (see Plums,p.302). 

Susceptible plants Apple, peach, almond, nectarine, cherry, quince, plum, and pear. 

Susceptible plants Peach also almond, nectarine, and rarely apricot, both edible and ornamental types. 

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