Depending on whether the flesh sticks to the stone or not; both can have either white or yellow.The peach genome sequence is composed of 227 millions of nucleotides arranged in 8 pseudomolecules representing the 8 peach chromosomes. When early rulers of China visited their territories, they were preceded by sorcerers armed with peach rods to protect them from spectral evils. Tresidder claims[51] the artists of Renaissance symbolically used peach to represent heart, and a leaf attached to the fruit as the symbol for tongue, thereby implying speaking truth from one's heart; a ripe peach was also a symbol to imply a ripe state.