plant

Peach

Nature

The named Prunus persica fruit-tree of East Asian spring bloom and orchard speech. Not apple as the Lots orchard fruit, and not pantao as the already-published immortality-peach object.

Also known as Prunus persica · Immortal peach

Shinto

  • Peach appears in Shinto.

    The Kojiki has Izanagi hurl peaches to drive back the Yomi pursuers as he flees the underworld. Named peach as apotropaic fruit in that descent narrative, not pantao as a Chinese immortality-peach object alone and not a generic orchard dump.

    from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968

    appears in · sourced · documented

  • Peach is used in Medicine.

    Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists the Persian apple / peach (περσικὸν μῆλον) among fruit drugs with leaf and kernel speech. A named peach in that handbook, not apple as the orchard round already walked and not pantao immortality-peach myth as this sentence.

    from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE

    used in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Kojiki · Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation)

    Donald L. Philippi, Kojiki.

  • De Materia Medica · Pedanius Dioscorides

    Dioscorides, De Materia Medica.