Today’s interesting fact has to do with the Nectarine.

A lot of people think that nectarines are different species of plant than peaches.

Many people think it is a cross between a peach tree and a plum tree.

But there it is only a single gene difference between the two that changes the fuzzy skin, into a smooth skin. 

Sometimes a peach tree will have a mutation on a branch, and that branch will then have nectarines on it.