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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Prunus dulcis
|accepted_authority=(Miller) D. A. Webb
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Feddes Repert.
|place=74: 24. 1967
|year=1967
}}
|common_names=Sweet almond;amandier
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Amygdalus dulcis
|authority=Miller
|rank=species
|publication_title=Gard. Dict. ed.
|publication_place=8, Amygdalus no. 2. 1768
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=A. communis
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Prunus amygdalus
|authority=Batsch
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Rosaceae;Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae;Rosaceae tribe Amygdaleae;Prunus;Prunus dulcis
|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 dulcis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 9
|mention_page=page 355, 358
|treatment_page=page 372
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> not suckering, 50–80 dm, not thorny. <b>Twigs</b> with terminal end buds, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> 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. <b>Inflorescences</b> solitary flowers or 2-flowered fascicles. <b>Pedicels</b> 1–5 mm, glabrous. <b>Flowers</b> 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. <b>Drupes</b> gray-green, ovoid-oblong, compressed, 25–40 mm, velutinous; mesocarps leathery (splitting); stones ellipsoid, strongly flattened, pitted. <b>2n</b> = 16.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Feb–Mar; fruiting Jul–Sep.
|habitat=Roadsides, canyons, grasslands
|elevation=20–500 m
|distribution=Calif.;Idaho;Wash.;w Asia;n Africa.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>The United States now dominates world almond production with over 40% of the annual crop, all of it grown in or near the Central Valley of California. The in-shell “nuts” sold in stores are the pits of drupes with the leathery mesocarp removed. Almond is among the earliest blossoming trees and one of the first signs of spring in areas where it is grown.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Prunus dulcis
|authority=(Miller) D. A. Webb
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=A. communis;Prunus amygdalus
|basionyms=Amygdalus dulcis
|family=Rosaceae
|phenology=Flowering Feb–Mar; fruiting Jul–Sep.
|habitat=Roadsides, canyons, grasslands
|elevation=20–500 m
|distribution=Calif.;Idaho;Wash.;w Asia;n Africa.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Feddes Repert.
|publication year=1967
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V9/V9_612.xml
|subfamily=Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae
|tribe=Rosaceae tribe Amygdaleae
|genus=Prunus
|species=Prunus dulcis
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