Our second fruit is Peach! The fruit which inspired lot of painters because its color. We can see peaches in Caravaggio, Monet, Renoir and Van Gogh. Peach Delicious and widely popular peaches are native to China, from where they spread to rest of the world via ancient silk route. Peach fruits belong to the genus Prunus in the family of Rosaceae. Scientific name: Prunus persica. Europe has to thank Alessandro Magno for having brought peaches to Rome: he got strikes from this