[Avodah] Terumos Umaaseros

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 12:15:32PM +0200, Danny Schoemann wrote:
: According to my Magid Shiur (and confirmed by R' Google), peach and
: nectarine trees flower during January and are a huge headache when it comes
: to T"uM.

Peaches, nectarines and almonds are related plants. The difference is
that while the almond ripens early, we wait for the fruit to dry up and
get leathery, split open and then harvest just the pit. Look a a peach
stone, and compare it to an almond in shell.

http://pavdevelopment.com/almond/harvest/Commercial-Almond-Harvest-Process

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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