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What is the difference between a peach and a nectarine?

April 26, 2017nectarine peach

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What is the difference between a peach and a nectarine?

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Nectarines and peaches are different by just one gene — it’s the gene that controls the fuzz, which peaches have and nectarines do not. Nectarines arose from natural variation in peach seeds; peach trees will sometimes produce a few nectarines, and nectarine trees a few peaches.