Taxon: Prunus armeniaca L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Prunus armeniaca var. ansu (no accessions)
• Prunus armeniaca var. armeniaca (no accessions)

Common names:

• ansu apricot   (Source: Mansf Ency [as Armeniaca ansu (Maxim.) Kostina]) – English   [Prunus armeniaca var. ansu]
  
• apricot   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Siberian apricot   (Source: L. Gilbert, p.c.) – English
  
• Tibetan apricot   (Source: Temp Frui Cr Breed [as Prunus holosericea]) – English   [Prunus armeniaca var. armeniaca]
  
• xing   (Source: F ChinaEng [as Armeniaca vulgaris]) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• ye xing   (Source: F ChinaEng [as Armeniaca vulgaris var. ansu]) – Transcribed Chinese   [Prunus armeniaca var. ansu]
  
• abricotier   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Aprikose   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• Aprikosenbaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Marille   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• anzu   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji   [Prunus armeniaca var. ansu]
  
• salgunamu   (Source: Kulturpflanze 34:120) – Transcribed Korean   [Prunus armeniaca var. ansu]
  
• damasco   (Source: F EntreR ) – Portuguese
  
• damasqueiro   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• abricó   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• albaricoque   (Source: F Int Apico ) – Spanish
  
• damasco   (Source: F EntreR ) – Spanish
  
• damasquino   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• aprikos   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Bee plants: honey production   (fide F Int Apico)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Krussmann)
  
• Environmental: revegetator   (for land reclamation fide L. Gilbert, pers. comm. 1998)
  
• Human food: beverage base   (fide Krussmann, F ChinaEng, as Armeniaca vulgaris)
  
• Human food: fruit   (fide Krussmann; F ChinaEng, as Armeniaca vulgaris)
  
• Human food: seeds   (fide Krussmann, F ChinaEng, as Armeniaca vulgaris)
  
• Gene sources: graft stock relative for plum   (fide Breed Pl Tree Crops 214. 2009)
  
• Gene sources: secondary genetic relative of Japanese plum   (hybrids between Prunus salicina and P. armeniaca are known as "plumcots" fide Breed Pl Tree Crops 184. 2009)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of peach   (fide Pl Cell Tiss Cult 88:289. 2007)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of plum   (fide Theor Appl Genet 105:304. 2002)
  
• Materials: essential oils   (fide Pl Book)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Prunus armeniaca from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Middle Asia: Kyrgyzstan
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Korea

• widely cultivated

• exact native range obscure

References:

• Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Bortiri, E. et al. 2001. Phylogeny and systematics of Prunus (Rosaceae) as determined by sequence analysis of ITS and the chloroplast trnL-trnF spacer DNA. Syst. Bot. 26:797–807.
• Browicz, K. & D. Zohary. 1996. The genus Amygdalus L. (Rosaceae): species relationships, distribution and evolution under domestication. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 43:229–247. [cites this taxon as "Armeniaca vulgaris L."].
• Burkart, A. E., ed. 1969–. Flora ilustrada de Entre Rios.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. [= Armeniaca vulgaris Lam.].
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. [= Armeniaca vulgaris Lam.].
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• Folta, K. M. & S. E. Gardiner. 2009. Genomics-based opportunities in apricot. In: Folta, K. M. et al., eds., Genetics and genomics of Rosaceae. 315–335.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Fu, Y. C. et al. 1977–. Flora intramongolica.
• Gilbert, L. 1998. pers. comm. [re. English common names].
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hagen, L. S. et al. 2002. Genetic diversity in apricot revealed by AFLP markers: species and cultivar comparisons. Theor. Appl. Genet. 105:298–305. [this study found evidence for the recognition of Prunus armeniaca to include at the varietal level P. ansu, P. mandshurica and P. holosericea].
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Hartmann, W. & M. Neumüller. 2009. Plum breeding. In: Jain, S. M. & P.M. Priyadarshan, eds., Breeding plantation tree crops: temperate species. 161–231.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. [= Armeniaca vulgaris Lam.].
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976).
• Ledbetter, C. A. 2008. Chapter 2. Apricots. In: Hancock, J. F., ed., Temperate fruit crop breeding: germplasm to genomics. 39–82.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Liu, W. et al. 2007. Interspecific hybridization of Prunus persica with P. armeniaca and P. salicina using embryo rescue. Pl. Cell Tissue Organ Cult. 88:289–299.
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Meikle, R. D. 1977–1985. Flora of Cyprus.
• Mowrey, B. D. & D. J. Werner. 1990. Phylogenetic relationships among species of Prunus as inferred by isozyme markers. Theor. Appl. Genet. 80:129–133.
• Ortega-Sada, J. L. 1987. Flora de interes apicola y polinizacion de cultivos.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. [= Armeniaca vulgaris Lam.].
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). [= Armeniaca vulgaris Lam.].
• Zhong Guo & Hua Jing. 1993. China floral encyclopaedia.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Prunus armeniaca.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Prunus armeniaca.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Prunus armeniaca.

Synonyms:

• Amygdalus armeniaca (L.) Dumort. [≡ Prunus armeniaca var. armeniaca]
  (previously associated with 5 accessions)
• Armeniaca ansu (Maxim.) Kostina [≡ Prunus armeniaca var. ansu]
  
• Armeniaca vulgaris Lam. [= Prunus armeniaca var. armeniaca]
  
• Armeniaca vulgaris var. ansu (Maxim.) T. T. Yu & L. T. Lu [≡ Prunus armeniaca var. ansu]
  
• Prunus ansu (Maxim.) Kom. [≡ Prunus armeniaca var. ansu]
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)
• Prunus armeniaca var. holosericea Batalin [= Prunus armeniaca var. armeniaca]
  
• Prunus armeniaca var. vulgaris Zabel [= Prunus armeniaca var. armeniaca]
  

Check other web resources for Prunus armeniaca L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Prunus armeniaca cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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