PEACH (; Prunus Persica):

By: Emil G. Hirsch, Immanuel Benzinger

This fruit and the plum (; Prunus domestica) are mentioned only in late times: the former in the Mishnah (Kil. i. 4; Ma'as. i. 2); the latter not until the Gemara (Löw, "Aramäische Pflanzennamen," No. 105).

E. G. H. I. Be.