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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Prunus armeniaca
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 474. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Apricot
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Armeniaca vulgaris
|authority=Lamarck
}}
|hierarchy=Rosaceae;Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae;Rosaceae tribe Amygdaleae;Prunus;Prunus armeniaca
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Rosaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Rosaceae tribe Amygdaleae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Prunus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Prunus armeniaca]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 9
|mention_page=page 355, 358
|treatment_page=page 375
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> not suckering, 50–100 dm, not thorny. <b>Twigs</b> with axillary end buds, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous; petiole (12–)20–45 mm, glabrous, glandular distally or on margins at bases of blades, glands 1–5; blade broadly ovate to suborbiculate, (3–)5–9 × (2–)4–8 cm, base usually obtuse to rounded, sometimes truncate or subcordate, margins singly to doubly crenate-serrate, teeth blunt, glandular, apex abruptly short-acuminate, abaxial surface with tufts of hairs in vein axils, adaxial glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> solitary flowers. <b>Pedicels</b> 1–3 mm, hairy. <b>Flowers</b> blooming before leaf emergence; hypanthium tubular-campanulate, 4–6 mm, glabrous or sparsely hairy externally; sepals reflexed, oblong-ovate, 4–6 mm, margins remotely glandular-toothed, surfaces sparsely hairy; petals white (pink in bud), broadly elliptic to suborbiculate, 8–12 mm; ovaries hairy. <b>Drupes</b> yellow to orange, often tinged with red, ellipsoid to globose, laterally compressed, 25–60 mm, velutinous; mesocarps fleshy; stones ellipsoid to subglobose, strongly flattened, not pitted. <b>2n</b> = 16.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–Apr; fruiting May–Jul.
|habitat=Roadsides, abandoned plantings
|elevation=20–1600 m
|distribution=Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Iowa;Kans.;Mich.;Mo.;Mont.;N.Mex.;Oreg.;Pa.;Utah;Va.;Wash.;Asia (China).
|discussion=<p>Commercial production of apricots in North America is in the western United States, mostly in the San Joaquin Valley of California. There is little market for fresh apricots because of their extremely short shelf life; most fruits are preserved by drying.</p>
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name=Prunus armeniaca
|author=
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Armeniaca vulgaris
|basionyms=
|family=Rosaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–Apr; fruiting May–Jul.
|habitat=Roadsides, abandoned plantings
|elevation=20–1600 m
|distribution=Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Iowa;Kans.;Mich.;Mo.;Mont.;N.Mex.;Oreg.;Pa.;Utah;Va.;Wash.;Asia (China).
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V9/V9_621.xml
|subfamily=Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae
|tribe=Rosaceae tribe Amygdaleae
|genus=Prunus
|species=Prunus armeniaca
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