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in his book Species plantarum. The accepted combination Prunus persica was published by August Batsch in 1801, though this was far from settled until the 20th century with many different placements of the peach and even divisions of nectarines and flat peaches into different species. The botanist Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick argued persuasively in 1917 that these differences are merely simple mutations and not species

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