(Colour) pinkish orange.
In 334 B.C., Alexander the Great did two things: he conquered Persia and he sent back to Greece the pits of a few peaches, a fruit that neither he nor anyone else in Europe had seen before. The pits were planted, the trees thrived, and soon Alexander’s peaches were being introduced all over Europe. Alexander’s conquest of Persia was responsible not only for the spread of the fruit but also for its name: because he first came upon it in Persia, Alexander named the peach Persikos melon, Greek for Persian apple. The ancient Romans adopted this name as Persicum malum, later shortened to just persicum, then adopted by French as pesche. This French name then made its way into English when, in the mid fourteenth century, it was adopted as peach. The one constant in the history of the word peach is that in almost every culture to which it has been introduced it has become associated with sex. The ancient Chinese, for example, used their word for peach to refer to a young bride; in French the fruit was nicknamed teton de Venus, meaning breast of Venus; and in English, beautiful young women have been called peaches since the mid eighteenth century. Such erotic associations may have been inspired by the resemblance of the peach’s cleft, running from its stem to its posterior end, to that of the human buttocks. Ironically however, the actual meaning of peach—or more accurately of its ancestor, Persia—is pure, a self-proclaimed attribute of the ancient Persians.
The solitary-seeded succulent produce stemming from the peach tree thrives predominantly in temperate regions like California, Italy, and the South of France. Originating from China, this fruit encapsulates its essence.