Nectarines

Nectarines and peaches are the same species.

Believing nectarines to be a crossbreed of plums and peaches is a widespread misconception.

Right now, we have blueberries, blackberries, cherries, strawberries, peaches and nectarines.

The skin of nectarines is slippery.

Tom bought some nectarines.

Growing up in the Philippines in the 1970s, I habitually watched the television show Sesame Street, and more than one episode mentioned "nectarines," which were fruits unknown to me in the tropics then.

In every hedge we passed were medlars, plumbs, cherries, and maples with vines trained to them. This abundance of fruit gives an air of great plenty, and likewise much improves the beauty of the country. The French fruit of almost every kind exceeds the English. An exception must be made with respect to apples, which are better in England than in any country in the world. But the grapes, the plumbs, the pears, the peaches, the nectarines, and the cherries of France, have not their equal all the world over. They are of course cheap in proportion to their abundance. The health of the peasantry may perhaps in good part be imputed to this vegetable abundance.

Balthazar has a basket of nectarines.