Prunus persica (binomen post Linnaeum ab Augusto Batsch anno 1801 statutum)^[1] est species plantarum generis Pruni in Serica alibique endemica. Propter fructum dulcem et sapidum, malum persicum^[2] sive persicum^[2] appellatum, colitur.

Fontes antiquiores

• 1330: Hu Si-hui, Propria ad mensam Imperatoris principia (Paul D. Buell, Eugene N. Anderson, edd. et interprr., A Soup for the Qan: Chinese dietary medicine of the Mongol era as seen in Hu Szu-hui's Yin-shan cheng-yao [Londinii: Kegan Paul, 2000] pp. 388, 564)
• 1561: Conradus Gesnerus, "De hortis Germaniae" in Valerius Cordus, Annotationes in Dioscoridis ... [etc.] (1561) f. 271b
• 1597: John Gerard, The Herball, or generall historie of plantes. Londinii: John Norton pp. 1257-1260 "persica"
• 1629: Ioannes Parkinsonus, Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris pp. 580-583
• 1801: Aug. Batsch in Beyträge und Entwürfe zur pragmatischen Geschicte der drey Natur-Reiche nach ihren Verwandtschaften Gewächreich vol. 1 (1801) p. 30
• 1808: Grimod de la Reynière et al., Almanach des gourmands vol. 6 (1808) pp. 83-92

De origine et historia

• Tyler Alioto et al., "Transposons played a major role in the diversification between the closely related almond (Prunus dulcis) and peach (P. persica) genomes: Results from the almond genome sequence" (6 Iunii 2019) apud biOrxiv.org pro Plant Journal
• Aaron H. De Groft, ed., Caravaggio: Still Life with Fruit on a Stone Ledge: papers of the Muscarelle Museum of Art, vol. 1. College of William and Mary, 2006? Textus
• Edward H. Schafer, The Golden Peaches of Samarkand (Berkeleiae: University of California Press, 1963) pp. 117–21 et alibi
• Yunfei Zheng, Gary W. Crawford, Xugao Chen, "Archaeological Evidence for Peach (Prunus persica) Cultivation and Domestication in China" in PLOS one (5 Septembris 2014)

De cultu et biologia

• Desmond R. Layne, Daniele Bassi, edd., The Peach: botany, production and uses. CABI, 2008. ISBN 1845933869
• William Thomas Okie, The Georgia Peach: culture, agriculture, and environment in the American South. Cantabrigiae: Cambridge University Press, 2016
• Gerardo Sánchez et al., "A non-targeted approach unravels the volatile network in peach fruit" in PLOS One vol. 7 (2012) e38992; alibi

De re cibaria

• "Peach" in Andrew Dalby, Food in the Ancient World from A to Z (Londinii, 2003. ISBN 0415232597) p. 252
• "Peach" in Alan Davidson, The Oxford Companion to Food (Oxonii: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-19-211579-0) pp. 588-589; Tom Jaine, ed., 2a ed. 2006; 3a ed. 2014
• "Pêche" in Prosper Montagné, Larousse gastronomique (Lutetiae: Larousse, 1938) pp. 798-800

• "Everything About Peaches"