Nectarine is a fruit that looks like a peach, but is brighter colored and completely lint-free, its skin is smooth and glossy. There is a misconception that nectarines are a hybrid of peach and plum, in fact - it is a natural mutation of the peach, the so-called "error of nature." For the first time, nectarines were described in the beginning of the 17th century in the books of English botanists, who began to notice that, under unfavorable natural conditions, smooth fruits began to appear on some peach trees (calorizator). Unusual peaches differed from the usual juiciness and sweetness, so breeders began to specifically implant the buds of mutating plants on ordinary peaches. An interesting fact is that sometimes nectarines may appear on peaches in a certain year, and vice versa - not.