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Tree of the family of the Rosáceas, apricots are nearly round with a depression at the top where the stem attached. They have a vertical indentation that starts at the stem and goes down one side. The skin is yellow-orange to pink-orange and feels soft and smooth. Apricots can be similar in appearance to peaches and nectarines, but those fruits usually have a reddish colouring to their skins.

Peaches can be red, pink, yellow, white, or a combination of those colours.  On one side of the fruit is a distinctive vertical indentation. Peaches and nectarines look very similar, but they can be told apart by their skin texture: peaches are fuzzy and dull, while nectarines are smooth and shiny.

The nectarine fruit is a variety of the peach tree. The botanical name of the nectarine is P. persica var. nucipersica while the botanical name of the peach is P. persica . Nectarines and peaches are similar in appearance and colour as they differ only by a single gene, the gene for skin texture. Peaches are fuzzy and dull, while nectarines are shiny and smooth. Nectarines can range in colour from red, pink, yellow or white.

One nectarine and two peach selections were planted in Murcia in 2003. All selections were characterized with early flowering time, moderate vigour and small fruit size. The fruits were of pronounced and attractive skin blush. All selections ranked high in terms of fruit appearance. Among the selections, flat peach with white flesh exhibited the highest performance in terms of cropping, fruit size and aroma. The flat peach is the most unique of the peach varieties, that they are round in shape but narrow in depth (resembling a donut). The flat peaches are white fleshed although those yellow flesh varieties are on their way with low acid content, thereby giving it the soft, sweet and creamy taste and texture.

Pears have a distinctive bell shape fruit. Some pears have knobbly lobes at the base of the fruit while others are smooth at the base. The skin of the fruit ranges in colour from green, yellow, red, brown, pink, or a combination of these colours.  Pear flesh is white and juicy and grainy in texture.

Plums have a plump, round shape with a depression at the top where the stem attached. Plum skin is very smooth and shiny, and can be red, purple, or yellow. Plums may be confused with nectarines or apples, but plums are usually smaller than both and lack orange colouring. Dried plums are called prunes.

The tangerine fruit is flattened in shape, 2 to 4 inches in diameter, and orange to orange-yellow in colour. The rind is thin and leathery and peels from the fruit easily. 

Each fruit is oval-shaped with red, green, or purple skin. The smooth skin often has a powdery, gray film on the surface.

American persimmon fruits are nearly rounded, shiny, and tough-skinned. They are about one inch in diameter, and the colour when ripe ranges from a pale orange to a slight yellowish colour. They ripen from September to October, usually after the tree has lost its leaves.