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[R] -These fruit trees all belong to the Rosaceae. They have long been extensively cultivated in Europe for their fruits, consumed fresh or processed (jams, jellies, fermented, dried, in syrups etc).
-The following fruits contain pips: apple, pear and quince, and fruits with stones: plum, peach, cherry, apricot and almond. The nut or seed is consumed in the latter case.
- Growing methods are more or less the same: propagation by vegetative reproduction, grafting, regular pruning etc.
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- They share various pests and diseases.
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-Principal European pests: some pests burrow into the wood: the (Capnodis tenebrionis) on the roots, the goat moth (Cossus cossus), the fruit bark beetle (Ruguloscolytus rugulosus) and the European shot-hole borer (Xyleborus dispar), as well as the leopard moth (Zeuzera pyrina).
Numerous Diaspididae colonize the branches and trunk: the West Indian peach scale (Pseudaulacaspis pentagona), the Italian pear scale (Epidiaspis leperii), the San José scale (Quadraspidiotus perniciosus). The fruit tree red mite (Panonychus ulmi) and the two-spotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticeae) are found on the leaves. The winter moth (Operophtera brumata) attacks the leaves and the fruitlets.
On the fruit the principal pests are the codling moth (Cydia pomonella), the Oriental peach moth (Cydia molesta), the summer fruit tortrix moth (Adoxophyes orana) and the fruit tree tortrix moth (Archips podana).

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