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  • COMMON NAME: Almond
  • ARABIC: لوز
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D.A.Webb
  • SYNONYMS: Amygdalus fragilis Borkh. , Prunus amygdalus
  • FAMILY: ROSACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Landscape (L) Fruits (F) Apiculture (A)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Tree
  • HABITATS: Terrace
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production.
V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0001005398 http://herbario.ual.es/portfolio-items/prunus-dulcis-mill-d-webb/#prettyPhoto https://www.catedraticosdelanaturaleza.es/ca/plants/prunus-dulcis-mill https://www.flickr.com/photos/21657471@N04/5518123116/in/photostream/
Honey nectar plants. Edible seed.
Trees, not suckering, 50–80 dm, not thorny. Twigs with terminal end buds, glabrous. Leaves deciduous; petiole (8–)10–25 mm, ?usually winged distally?, glabrous, usually glandular distally or on margins at bases of blades; blade oblong to lanceolate, 2.5–10 × 1–3 cm, base obtuse, margins crenulate-serrulate to crenate-serrate, teeth blunt, glandular, apex acuminate, surfaces glabrous. Inflorescences solitary flowers or 2-flowered fascicles. Pedicels 1–5 mm, glabrous. Flowers blooming before leaf emergence; hypanthium cupulate, 4–7 mm, glabrous externally; sepals erect-spreading to spreading, oblong-ovate, 4–8 mm, margins entire, ?tomentose?, surfaces glabrous; petals pink to nearly white, obovate, elliptic, or suborbiculate, 12–25 mm; ovaries hairy. Drupes gray-green, ovoid-oblong, ?compressed?, 25–40 mm, velutinous; mesocarps leathery (splitting); stones ellipsoid, strongly flattened. Flowering from March-April.
Cultivated places and farms.
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