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  • COMMON NAME: Arabian almond
  • ARABIC: العتم (لوز بري)
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Amygdalus arabica Oliv
  • SYNONYMS: pruns arabicus (olive.)
  • FAMILY: ROSACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Ras-Al-Khaimah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Other Uses (O)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Slope Slope (Rocky) Slope (Stony)
  • TYPES: Perennial
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://trea.deminasi.com/%D8%B4%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%AA%D9%85.html V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Crushed almonds mixed with milk taken as a tonic. It has been relied upon for many of the requirements of life for thousands of years, due to the quality and hardness of its wood, including the best and finest types of “miswak”. Manufacture of pillars for the roofs of houses built of stone, and they also extract “tar oil”, or what is known as “wood oil”, which is frequently used in painting boats and veterinary treatments.

Shrub, erect, unarmed, 1-1.5 meter high, with pointed, greenish, smooth, angled twigs. Leaves sparse, linear to lanceolate, 1-3.5 cm long and 0.3-0.7 cm broad, subsessile, glabrous, acute with toothed or serrate margins. Flowers solitary, mostly appearing before the leaves, about 2 cm in diameter. Receptacle cup-shaped, 0.2-0.5 cm long. Sepals 0.2-0.5 cm long and 0.2 cm wide, ovate, nearly acute, more or less glabrous, reflexed after petal-fall. Petal 0.5-1.0 cm long and 0.4-0.8 cm wide, free, broadly obovate with toothed or emarginate at apex. White or pale pink and reddish center. Stamens 0.2-0.4 cm long, anthers nearly oblong, Style terminal, hairy at basee. Stigma small, capitate. Ovary ovoid, downy. Fruit ovoid, 1.5-2.5 cm long, 2-valved, containing edible almond seed, about 1 cm long, brown.

Flowering from January to February.
Mountain slopes and wadis among rocks.