| The question of when history on nectarines began | | | | nectarine and then again mutate back to the peach. |
| cannot be answered properly and with any certainty. | | | | Even though the word 'nectarine' was first used in |
| Efforts to do this by some websites that suggest that | | | | England in 1616, there is no conclusive evidence that |
| nectarine Prunus persica nectarina history should begin | | | | the usage of the word derived from the Greek word |
| in China in 2000 BC to correspond with the history of | | | | meaning nectar, can be properly applied to the same |
| the peach is absurd for several reasons, unless it is | | | | English fruit that science describes today as the |
| assumed that a nectarine is a cultivar (variety) of a | | | | nectarine. It is true that Darwin noticed that a few |
| peach. In American agricultural and commercial fruit | | | | nectarines might randomly occur on peach trees. He |
| circles, the nectarine fruit is treated as a separate | | | | also noted that nectarine grafts from these trees |
| species from peach, because of the wider possibilities | | | | would revert to produce peaches identical to the fruit |
| in contrasting a few of the desirable characteristics of | | | | grown from the original, mother peach tree. The |
| each fruit in a marketing campaign to sell more | | | | instability of this back and forth process of gaining fuzz |
| products. Many mischaracterizations of the nectarine | | | | and losing fuzz stretches the truthfulness in labeling the |
| development jump up before us to confuse and | | | | nectarine as a genuine mutation. It has been theorized |
| disorient potential buyers, such as the nectarine profile: | | | | that the nectarine tree has arisen from a simple |
| promoted as resulting from a cross between a plum | | | | recessive gene; however, this theory also is wobbley, if |
| and a peach that is patently false. Nectarine fruit also | | | | one considers present understanding of Mendelian |
| has been described as a fuzzless peach, or as a | | | | genetic mechanisms. |
| mutation of a peach that may mutate back to a | | | | |