Peach is a variety and cultivated variety of deciduous plant peach in Rosaceae. Small trees, up to 8 meters high, are generally controlled between 3 and 4 meters after shaping. The crown is wide and flat, showing a wide oval shape; Bark grayish brown, rough and scaly when old; Branches grow upright, slender, green or reddish, and then turn reddish brown, hairless, smooth and slightly shiny, with a large number of small lenticels; Winter buds are cone-shaped, the top is blunt and round, with pubescence outside, often 2-3 clusters, with leaf buds in the middle and flower buds on both sides.
Simple leaves alternate, elliptic or lanceolate, 7- 15 cm long and 2-3.5 cm wide, tapering at the top, wide wedge-shaped at the base, hairless at the top, with a small amount of short hairs between the axils of veins or hairless at the bottom, serrated leaves with glands or glandular teeth; Petiole stout, long 1 to 2 cm, often with 1 to several glands, sometimes without glands.
Flowers solitary or two in leaf axils, open in front of leaves, 2.5 to 3.5 cm in diameter. Pedicel very short or almost sessile; Calyx tube bell-shaped, pubescent, sparsely hairless, green with red spots; Sepals ovate to oblong, obtuse at the top, pubescent outside; There are single petals, semi-double petals and double petals. Petals are oblong to broadly obovate, and the colors are white, pink, red, red and white. Stamens about 20 to 30, anthers deep red; Style almost as long as stamens or slightly shorter; Ovary pubescent. Leaves open first or at the same time in spring.
Fruits vary in shape and size, oval, wide oval or oblate, 5-7 cm in diameter, equal in length and width, ranging in color from light green, white to orange, often glowing on the sunny side, densely pubescent outside, thin and hairless, with obvious abdominal seams, and short fruit stalks that go deep into fruit pits. The pulp is white, light green white, yellow, orange yellow or red, and the juice is fragrant, sweet or sour; The nucleus is large, detached or sticky, oval or nearly round, flat on both sides, tapering at the top, with longitudinal, transverse grooves and holes on the surface; Seed kernel tastes bitter, thin and sweet. The flowering period is from March to April, and the drupe is broadly ovoid. Maturity varies with varieties, generally from August to September. Some varieties only blossom without fruit.