The broom peach is a uniquely distinctive variety among peach blossoms.

Compared with the more familiar and common upright-branch peach, the Shouxing peach and the weeping peach, the broom peach can be said to be an extremely unique type among the many varieties of peach blossom. Its tall tree form, narrow and tall crown, branches growing straight upward and small branching angle are the most notable characteristics of the broom peach.

The broom peach first originated in Japan's Edo period. In 1695, the famous Japanese horticultural monograph "Kadan Jikinsho" contained the earliest record of the broom peach. The "Yang's Great Dictionary of Horticultural Plants" published in Taiwan, China also once recorded the tower-shaped peach.

Starting in the 1980s, Japan used the ancient broom peach as a parent to breed the pure-color 'Terute' series of broom peaches in pink, red and white. 'Terute' in Japanese refers to the 'broom' shape. It includes four varieties: 'Terute Beni', 'Terute Shiro', 'Terute Momo' and 'Terute Hime'. The latter two both belong to the pink series, but differ in the depth of flower color and flower density. The Beijing Botanical Garden successfully introduced the above four broom peach varieties from Japan in 1998 and carried out introduction and planting in the garden, which was also the first time this special type of peach blossom settled in our country.

The United States used the Japanese broom peach as a parent and in the late 1990s bred the 'Corinthian' series of peach blossom varieties. 'Corinthian' in architecture specifically refers to an ancient Roman column order, tall and upright. The Corinthian series of broom peaches includes varieties with green leaves as well as two new varieties with purple-red leaves, 'Corinthian Pink' and 'Corinthian Rose'. At present, the Beijing Botanical Garden has successfully introduced them all.