Prunus armeniaca Linnaeus (Q4481)

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Prunus armeniaca is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Prunus
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Prunus armeniaca Linnaeus
Prunus armeniaca is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Prunus

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    taxon/id/Prunus armeniaca Linnaeus
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    Prunus armeniaca Linnaeus
    Prunus armeniaca
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    abricotier commun (French)
    Apricot (English)
    1 reference
    Scoggan, H.J. 1978-79. The Flora of Canada. Parts 1-4. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Publications in Botany 7. 4 volumes.
    Asia (China)
    Flowering Mar–Apr; fruiting May–Jul.
    roadsides
    abandoned plantings
    Trees, not suckering, 50–100 dm, not thorny.
    Twigs with axillary end buds, glabrous.
    petiole (12–) 20–45 mm, glabrous, glandular distally or on margins at bases of blades, glands 1–5;
    blade broadly ovate to suborbiculate, (3–) 5–9 × (2–) 4–8 cm, base usually obtuse to rounded, sometimes truncate or subcordate, margins singly to doubly crenate-serrate, teeth blunt, glandular, apex abruptly short-acuminate, abaxial surface with tufts of hairs in vein-axils, adaxial glabrous.
    Inflorescences solitary flowers.
    Pedicels 1–3 mm, hairy.
    Flowers blooming before leaf emergence;
    hypanthium tubular-campanulate, 4–6 mm, glabrous or sparsely hairy externally;
    sepals reflexed, oblong-ovate, 4–6 mm, margins remotely glandular-toothed, surfaces sparsely hairy;
    petals white (pink in bud), broadly elliptic to suborbiculate, 8–12 mm;
    Drupes yellow to orange, often tinged with red, ellipsoid to globose, laterally compressed, 25–60 mm, velutinous;
    mesocarps fleshy;