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
    20–1600 m
    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;