Apricot
Prunus armeniaca · Rosaceae · 살구나무
How to spot it
Spreading low branches, five-petaled white to pale pink flowers that open before the leaves, and fruit with a large stone.
(original photo, new tab)Leaf · Photo Shuhrataxmedov · CC BY-SA 3.0 
(original photo, new tab)Leaf · Photo Pietro Voso · CC BY-SA 4.0 
(original photo, new tab)Bark · Photo Dalgial · CC BY-SA 3.0 
(original photo, new tab)Bark · Photo Geographer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Look
- Leaves
- Ovate leaves with a rounded base, pointed tip and toothed margin.
- Flowers
- Fragrant white or pale pink flowers, usually solitary, open before the leaves; five petals.
- Fruit
- Yellow to red fleshy fruit with a large stone inside.
- Bark
- Bark is dark brown, reddish brown to blackish.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Planted (Hanbat Arboretum)
- Native to
- Central Asia to northern and central China.
- Ecology
- Needs winter chill; the early flowers of late winter to early spring are very sensitive to frost.