Peach is a kind of fruit. The more important varieties of peaches are nectarine, flat peach, longevity peach and peach. Among them, nectarine and flat peach are cultivated as fruit trees, Shouxing peach and Bitong peach are mainly for viewing, and Shouxing peach can also be used as dwarf rootstock of peach. This tree is 4-5 meters high. Annual branches are reddish brown. The leaves are mostly lanceolate, the leaf margin is serrated, and there are often nectaries at the base of the petiole. There are two patterns: roses and bells. Drupe is mostly round or rectangular except flat peach, and the fruit surface is evenly distributed with fuzz except nectarine.

The main economic planting areas are in North China and East China, and the relatively concentrated areas are Haidian District and Pinggu District of Beijing, Jizhou District of Tianjin, Mengyin, Feicheng, Yidu and Qingdao of Shandong Province, Shangshui and Kaifeng of Henan Province, Funing, Zunhua, Shenxian, Linzhang, Baoji and Xi 'an of Hebei Province, Tianshui City of Gansu Province, Chengdu City of Sichuan Province and Dalian City of Liaoning Province.