Prunus persica Common Peach Group (Common names)
See also:
Prunus persica Pavie Group (Common names)
Prunus persica Nectarine Group (Common names)
Prunus persica Brugnon Group (Common names)
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Names in common use
- English: peach; flat peach1
- German: Pfirsich; Safranpfirsich2; Blutpfirsich3
- Dutch: perzik
- Swedish: persika
- Danish: fersken
- Norwegian: fersken
- Icelandic: ferskja
- French: pêcher / pêche; pêche plate1; pêche-abricot, alberge2; pêche sanguine3
- Italian: pesco / pesca; pesca saturnina, pesca tabacchiera1
- Spanish: melocotonero, duraznero (Canaries, America) / melocotón, durazno
- Catalan: presseguer, bresquiller/ préssec, bresquilla
- Portuguese: pessegueiro / pêssego nectarina
- Romanian: piersic / piersică
- Russian: персик
- Polish: brzoskwinia
- Czech: broskvoň / broskev
- Slovak:
- Bulgarian: праскова
- Croatian: breskva
- Serb: бресква, праска, шефтелија - breskva, praska, šeftelija
- Slovenian: breskev
- Macedonian:
- Latvian: persiks
- Lithuanian: persikas
- Albanian: pjashkë (pjeshka with article)
- Greek: ροδακινιά / ροδάκινο; σαγκουίνι3 - rodhakinia / rodhakino; sangouini3
- Turkish: şeftali
- Maltese: ħawħ
- Hungarian: őszibarack
- Finnish: persikka
- Estonian: virsik
Sources and commentaries
The names for Common Peach (velvety and freestone) are also used for the species as a whole. Several languages have special names for other cultivar groups (smooth or clingstone). Other variants of color or form are included in the relevant groups.
1) Flat peach.
2) Yellow-fleshed peach.
3) Blod red-fleshed peach.
- Spanish: Local names such as prisco, abridor designate the Common Peach Group only.