Almond
Prunus dulcis · Rosaceae · 아몬드
How to spot it
Distinguished from related species by hairless twigs, glands on the leaf stalk, and a bell-shaped calyx.
Look
- Leaves
- Hairless lanceolate leaves 7.5 to 12.5 cm long, long-pointed, with fine teeth on the margin and glands on the leaf stalk.
- Flowers
- Pale pink to nearly white flowers (2.5 to 5 cm across) bloom in March to April before the leaves, from the previous summer's buds.
- Fruit
- A velvety-hairy drupe 3.8 to 6.4 cm long with dry flesh, holding a smooth-shelled pitted nut (the almond).
Where it grows
- Native to
- Believed native to southwest Asia and the Balkan Peninsula, and probably North Africa.