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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Rosaceae
Prunus armeniaca

Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 474 (1753).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Apricot.

Description:
Tree, unarmed, deciduous; twigs and young growth sparsely pubescent soon glabrous; stipules caducous; petiole relatively slender, with 1 or 2 glands towards the summit; leaves broad-ovate to cordate, apex acute to shortly acuminate, entire, serrate.

Flowers solitary or 2 together, sessile or nearly so, borne before the leaves; sepals 5, reflexed; petals 5, shortly clawed, white or pink; stamens numerous; ovary superior, densely pubescent; style single.

fruit a drupe, subglobular, succulent, minutely pubescent; stone compressed, lenticular, smooth, with 3 ridges along 1 suture.

image of FSA1_Prunus_arm.jpg Prunus armeniaca
Image source: fig 246a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  Widely cultivated in orchards and gardens, long persisting in old and abandoned gardens, sparingly established from discarded seeds, doubtfully naturalised.

S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, MU, SL, SE.   Possibly native to China.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: in spring.


SA Distribution Map based
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