Top 10 Strange, Rare and Unusual Peaches

While most people associate the peach with hotter American states like Florida a peach is native to China. But you don’t have to visit china, or anywhere else in the world to see some of the most unusual and rarest peaches because I have them all right here in this post…

 


 

Top 10 Strange, Rare and Unusual Peaches
Harrow Diamond Peach

10 – Harrow Diamond

This cold hardy, productive peach is one of the most popular early varieties. With its deep yellow firm flesh, it has excellent flavour and very good in all weathers.

Top 10 Strange, Rare and Unusual Peaches
China Pearl Peaches

9 – China Pearl

Often considered to be the strongest of all the peach varieties.  An excellent white peach variety producing fruits in exceptional hardiness even withstanding sub-freezing temperatures!

Top 10 Strange, Rare and Unusual Peaches
Tropi-berta Peach

8 – Tropi-berta Peach

Tropi Berta Peaches are often very large, with firm, juicy yellow flesh with excellent flavour. This tree also requires a lot more pruning than others due to its much faster growing and often bushier leaves and foliage.

Top 10 Strange, Rare and Unusual Peaches
White Lady Peach

7 – White Lady

This fruit is a sugar white-fleshed peach that is low in acid and full of flavour. IIt it also said to have an aroma that is almost heavenly!

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Top 10 Strange, Rare and Unusual Peaches
Flamin’ Fury Peach

6 – Flamin’ Fury

That small fruit next to the bigger one is a normal size peach, and that bigger one is the Flamin’ Fury Peach. Recognised by Guinness Book of World Records as being the largest type of Peach in the world!

Top 10 Strange, Rare and Unusual Peaches
Desert Gold Peach

5 – Desert Gold

Desert golds are one of only a few peach trees that can self-fruit. The tree its self grows up to 30 feet tall and is also considered to be one of the fastest growing as well. Most notable for its heart shape

Top 10 Strange, Rare and Unusual Peaches
Dwarf Peaches

4 – Dwarf

I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you that this is one of the smallest peach trees you can grow. The entire tree will never grow more than 6ft high! But most only make it to half that height.

Top 10 Strange, Rare and Unusual Peaches
Heirloom Peaches

3 – Heirloom

An heirloom peach is not a particular breed of peach, rather a variety of peach that has been around for more than 50 years! That is one old peach!

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Top 10 Strange, Rare and Unusual Peaches
Red-Fleshed Peaches

2 – Red-Fleshed

Sometimes called blood peaches or Peche de Vigne. The flesh of the fruit is stained a deep red peach and it is said to be one of the most delicious in the world

Top 10 Strange, Rare and Unusual Peaches
Donut Peaches

1 – Donut

Would we all like to eat more doughnuts instead of boring fruit right? Well, why not combine the two by eating doughnut peaches! Sadly they just look like our favourite sugar snacks, not taste like them.

Author: Gus Barge

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