I like to go fruit picking in the summer time.
I do as well! From spring through autumn, there are many orchards that farm all kinds of fruits.
I used to live near an orchard as a child. My favorite fruit is peaches.
I've always associated peaches with the southern United States. Turns out, they're actually native to northwest China.
That is interesting. Do know how many varieties there are?
Sadly, I don't....nectarines are technically a type of peach, right?
I believe so. Nectarines are smooth, and peaches are fuzzy. I love them both.
and plum, in the rose family. The peach is classified with the almond in the subgenus "Amygdalus", distinguished from the other subgenera by the corrugated seed shell. Due to their close relatedness, the inside of a peach stone tastes remarkably similar to almond, and peach stones are often used to make a cheap version of marzipan, known as persipan.
Peaches and nectarines are the same species, even though they are regarded commercially as different fruits. In contrast to peaches, whose fruits present the characteristic fuzz on
, as the district finds tourism more profitable than trying to grow crops on mountainsides.
Tourism.
Longquanyi district is one of the most popular places to travel in Sichuan. Half of the area is mountainous with most of the land devoted to peach orchards. In spring, the mountains take on the pink glory of peach blossoms. Longquanyi District is also the home of all kinds of fruits. Famous fruits include grapes, peaches and Loquat fruit.
Education.
Longquanyi district is to home to the "Golden Phoenix