Short answers, pulled from the story.
Carl Linnaeus named the peach tree Amygdalus persica in 1753 within his book Species plantarum. The classification later changed to Prunus persica when August Batsch published it on the 2nd of May 1801.
The oldest known peach stones come from the Kuahuqiao site near Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province, China. Archaeological evidence places the domestication of peaches as early as 6000 BCE at this location.
Researchers found 27,852 protein-coding genes within the entire genome of the Lovell cultivar. This genetic sequence contains 227 million nucleotides arranged into eight pseudomolecules representing the eight peach chromosomes.
China produced 65% of the total world production which reached 27.1 million tonnes in 2023. Spain followed with only about 5% of the world total while Turkey, Italy, the U.S., and Iran lagged far behind.
Georgia officially adopted the peach as state fruit in 1995 despite not being first or second in production. South Carolina named it their state fruit in 1984 and Alabama designated it the state tree fruit in 2006 alongside blackberry as the state fruit.