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With so many new hybrid varieties having been cloned and developed over the last few years, I suspect that it might not be as easy to produce a reliable cropping tree from a stone as it sounds for our climate. A link here gives more about peaches and nectarines, it also mentions peach trees apparently producing nectarines, which corraborates with my old gardener source......
:http://www.thefruitpages.com/peaches.shtml
In common with apples & cherries, what grows from the seed, will depend on the whim of the bee which pollinated the flower.
Interesting about the nectarines from peach tree quirk !
Just a thought about seasonal food being "Nature's way" of keeping us healthy -
Man evolved in Africa & walked to the rest of the world, so how clever nature would be, to organise it's harvests in the UK entirely for the benefit of the human race
If peaches are grown in a peach orchard there is a fairly good chance that it was pollinated from another peach, as they are in flower quite early. The only thing in this country that might cross pollinate is blackthorn, and I don't know if there is anything else where peaches are mainly grown. The growers might try to remove it from near the orchard if there is.
I suspect that as far as the human race is concerned it is a matter of man finding food at all times of the year and breeding plants to help. In places where there is no vegetable harvest like the Arctic, people eat meat and fish. Man just didn't go where there was nothing to eat.
Judging by the way peach stones in my compost heap stay there for years, it takes some effort to get a peach to germinate anyway.
Going back to Don's comments. We have some prunus in our wood that we still have not identified. It looks like blackthorn, but either because of where it grows, or it's natural habit it is long and thin not bushy like blackthorn. We have it down as prunus spp. One day one of the smaller trees will fruit and we will see what it is. Most of the big ones have fallen over now, but there are suckers/coppice rods growing so we have not lost it.