Apricot-Peach - Botanical print 50x70cm

Armeniaca Macrocarpa - Peach Apricot

"Of all the known apricots, this one is certainly the largest and the best": this is how Pierre-Antoine Poiteau introduces the Peach Apricot in his Pomologie Française.

Long confused with the Nancy Apricot, this exceptional fruit is distinguished by a unique characteristic in the plant kingdom: its pit has a longitudinal tube that can be traversed by a pin. This anatomical singularity, combined with its remarkable size and incomparable fragrance, makes it the aristocrat of the orchard.

The Peach Apricot tree is easily recognized by its characteristic habit and foliage. Grown as an espalier in the south, it produces voluminous, beautiful yellow fruits, smooth and regular, but sometimes pasty and flavorless. In the open, provided the spring is mild, it reveals its true character: firm, tanned, dark red on the sun-exposed side, rough on the surface. Its flesh then takes on a saffron yellow hue and is filled with a fragrant, pleasantly acidic juice, with an incomparable flavor. Fragile in the face of climatic excesses, both drought and prolonged rain, this rare fruit requires patience and expertise.

Its early flowering, with large white blossoms, contrasts with its late maturity, around August 15th, when other varieties have already passed.

This plate is extracted from the Traité des Arbres Fruitiers by Pierre-Antoine Poiteau and Pierre Jean François Turpin, a botanical encyclopedia published between 1807 and 1835, a major reference in 19th-century naturalist illustration.
It combines the rigor of scientific drawing with a rare artistic sensibility, characteristic of the great plates of the golden age of illustrated botany.

• Each poster is printed with 12-color giclée printing, the reference for art workshops for rendering fine tones, subtle gradients, and the most delicate botanical details.
• 200 gsm paper weight, soft matte finish, 0.26 mm thickness: a result close to the original engraving, clear, glare-free, designed for hanging.
• Printed on FSC certified paper, individually printed to order.
• Shipped in a rigid protective tube.