- Family:
- Rosaceae Juss.
- Genus:
- Prunus L.
Prunus amygdalus Batsch

Native to:
Transcaucasus
Introduced into:
Afghanistan, Algeria, Baleares, Bulgaria, California, Canary Is., Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., France, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Idaho, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Morocco, Pakistan, Palestine, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Washington, Yugoslavia
- Amygdalus amara Duhamel
- Amygdalus amygdalina Oken ex M.Roem.
- Amygdalus amygdalus (Batsch) Frye & Rigg
- Amygdalus cochinchinensis Lour.
- Amygdalus communis L.
- Amygdalus communis var. fragilis Ser.
- Amygdalus communis var. macrocarpa Ser.
- Amygdalus decipiens Poit. & Turpin
- Amygdalus dulcis Mill.
- Amygdalus elata Salisb.
- Amygdalus korshinskyi var. bornmuelleri Browicz
- Amygdalus sativa Mill.
- Amygdalus sinensis Steud.
- Amygdalus stocksiana Boiss.
- Druparia amygdalus (Batsch) Clairv.
- Persica Mill.
- Prunus cochinchinensis (Lour.) Koehne
- Prunus communis (L.) Arcang.
- Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D.A.Webb
- Prunus dulcis var. amara (Duhamel) Buchheim
- Prunus dulcis var. fragilis (Ser.) Buchheim
- Prunus dulcis var. spontanea (Korsh.) Buchheim
- Prunus intermedia A.Sav.
- Prunus stocksiana (Boiss.) Brandis
- Trichocarpus Neck.
- English
- Almond
Prunus amygdalus Batsch appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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16070.000 | No |
First published in Beytr. Entw. Gewächsreich 1: 30 (1801)
Accepted by
- Landrein, S. & al. (2017). Flora of Pakistan 221: 1-161. Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi.
- Townsend, C.C. & Guest, E. (1966). Flora of Iraq 2: 1-184. Ministry of Agriculture & Agrarian Reform, Baghdad.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
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- Browicz, K. & al. (1969). Rosaceae I Flora Iranica 66: 1-217. Naturhistorisches Museums Wien.
- Davis, P.H. (ed.) (1972). Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands 4: 1-657. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
- Delipavlov, D. & Cheshmedzhiev, I. (eds.) (2011). Opredelitel na rasteniiata v Bulgariia: 1-590. Akad. Isd. Agrar. Univers. Plovdiv.
- Dobignard, A. & Chatelain, C. (2013). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 5: 1-451. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève.
- Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2014). Flora of North America North of Mexico 9: 1-713. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
- Hansen, A. & Sunding, P. (1993). Flora of Macaronesia. Checklist of vascular plants. 4. revised edition Sommerfeltia 17: 1-295.
- Korovin, E.P. & Vvedensky, A.I. (eds.) (1955). Flora Uzbekistana 3: 1-824. Izd-va Akademii nauk Uzbekskoi SSR, Tashkent.
- Kurtto, A., Sennikov, A.N. & Lampinen, R. (2013). Atlas Florae Europaeae. Distribution of vascular plants in Europe 16: 1-168.
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- Mouterde, P. in Mouterde, P. (1986). Nouvelle flore du Liban se de la Syrie 2: 1-727. Dar El-Machreq Sarl, Beyrouth, Liban.
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- Ovczinnikov, P.N. (ed.) (1975). Flora Tadzhikskoi SSR 4: 1-576. Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, Moskva.
- Paelov, N.V. (ed.) in Pavlov, N.V. (ed.) (1961). Flora Kazakhstana 4: 1-546. Alma-Ata, Izd-vo Akademii nauk Kazakhskoi SSR.
- Zohary, M. in Feinbrun-Dothan, N. (1972). Flora Palaestina 2(Text): 1-489. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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Kew Backbone Distributions
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Kew Living Collection Database
Common Names from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Living Collection https://www.kew.org/
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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Kew Science Photographs
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Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia
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