Nectarine is primarily grown in temperate zones, between latitudes 30 and 45 N and S. The nectarine flower bud is hardy to about -23 ° C to -26 ° C which limits its cultivation at higher latitudes.
The nectarine differs from the peach only in having a smooth skin; and even this difference is non-permanent, the same tree having in some instance borne both downy and smooth skin fruit.
The fruit of the nectarine being smooth skin is equally liable to attack from Curculio as the plum, and the same remedies are adopted for prevention.
Fruit shapes vary from braked, round to flat, colors vary from yellow, white to red, the flesh can be melting or non-melting and they can be clingstone or freestone.
Nectarine fruit
