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- Wild peaches are usually not wild at all
- Wild peach come from cultivated cultivation
- Flat peaches have a very fine aroma
- Grow flat peaches in the garden
- Other wild rarities
- The red wild peach
- The white Chinese peach
- Tips & Tricks
Wild peaches are usually not wild at all
Peach is not equal to peach: The world's about 3000 different varieties of sweet "fruit of immortality" differ in appearance, taste and other properties. Among them are also varieties such as nectarines - which are basically just hairless peaches - as well as the so-called wild peaches.
Wild peach come from cultivated cultivation
For some years, the so-called "wild peaches" are available in the supermarket, which are anything but wild. The fruits look like flattened balls, which is why they are also referred to as flat or plate peaches. Other denominations are u. a. Mountain peach or Saturn peach (due to the Saturn ring). Unlike the name "wild peach" suggests, these flat varieties of peach are not picked in nature, but cultivated on conventional orchards.
Flat peaches have a very fine aroma
However, the flat peaches surpass their spherical cousins by far in terms of taste and juiciness: Flat peaches have wonderfully fine aroma, are very sweet and very juicy - but only if they are actually mature on the tree. Naturally, ripened peaches will never be able to achieve the sweetness and juiciness of a fully ripe peach. The plate peaches are ideal for raw consumption, but also for cooking or for special dishes.
Grow flat peaches in the garden
Under the name "Tellerpfirsich" or "Saturn peach" you can also buy young peach trees in the fruit trade, which you can plant in your own garden. These peaches have the same requirements as their normal cousins, but are particularly sensitive to the widespread ragweed disease of peaches. Flat peaches must always be sprayed ergo.
Other wild rarities
Instead of the supposedly wild peach peaches you can also plant other wild peach rarities, which actually not everyone has. These include u. a.
The red wild peach
This rarity comes from the south of Russia and develops medium-sized, yellow to red fruits. The up to three-meter-high shrub is very robust, frost hardy and also insensitive to the ruffling disease.
The white Chinese peach
Also this late ripening variety is strictly speaking no wild peach, because it is cultivated very often and gladly in the whole Asian area. The fruits are only a little red, but very aromatic.
Tips & Tricks
Wild peaches, d. H. cultivate the flat peach, only in particularly suitable locations and above all treat regularly against the ruffling disease and other fungal diseases.