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is peach a citrus

Started by rakkety tam, August 24, 2011, 04:52:26 PM

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is peach a citrus

of course it is
what your crazy no it isnt

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It is. I just looked it up on Google.  :P I voted.
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*coughs and raises a hand* For the sake of my OCD mind, I would like to lay down some non-Internet gleaned facts.

From the Peanut Gallery (aka the person who has a ##:1046 in Biology with an emphasis in Ecology and Evolution and has done a substantial amount of study in plants):

Citrus: A citrus fruit is a hesperidium, which is a sort of berry that has a rind around things called liths (the segments you see when you cut up an orange) that are filled with "pouches" called vesicles. (I'm not even going to get into the development of these different parts of the fruit, because that will take far longer than I have at the moment).

Peach: A peach is a drupe. Drupes have an exocarp (skin) that surrounds a pit of sorts of what's called endocarp that contains a seed. The endocarp is usually hardened.

A big difference between the two is that citrus plants are evergreen, while the plants that bear peaches are not evergreen. Also, in the development of the fruits, different parts of the flower become different parts of the fruit.

There you have it. Colloquially, peaches may be considered citrus, but when you get into the actual phylogeny of the plants, they are not closely related.
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rakkety tam

peach is a citrus it has been a disagreemant for years i say it is
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Quote from: Blaggut on September 28, 2013, 02:47:19 AM
Invaded. *ferret meat candy appears*
Dude, really? This topic has been dead for two years.

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Really? Oops. I checked the veryyyyyyyy back... Why doesn't it just stay at the back? Why does it have to come to the front. I wana post where my post will never bee seen by the likes of mortals  :(
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This is an old topic but I say it is...


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Quote from: Blaggut on September 28, 2013, 05:02:45 AM
Really? Oops. I checked the veryyyyyyyy back... Why doesn't it just stay at the back? Why does it have to come to the front. I wana post where my post will never bee seen by the likes of mortals  :(
When you post in a topic, it automatically brings it to the very front.

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Del, how do you even. . . ? (This topic is so very old. . .)

What yeswonderful said is true; a peach is not a citrus, and is seen so by it's physical traits.
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Delthion

Actually, it's your own fault that I revived this before you.  ;D I went to the thing that shows you who's looking at what, and I posted here for no real reason whatsoever.
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I'm eating a peach right now, actually.

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