Taxon: Prunus mume Siebold & Zucc.

Common names:

• Japanese apricot   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• mei   (Source: F ChinaEng [as Armeniaca mume]) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• abricotier du Japon   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – French
  
• abricotier japonais   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• japanische Aprikose   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• mume   (Source: Ency CNatIn ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• ume   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• maesilnamu   (Source: F Korea ) – Transcribed Korean
  
• damasqueiro-da-China   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• japansk aprikos   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Human food: beverage base   (fide Ency CNatIn)
  
• Gene sources: disease resistance for apricot   (as graft stock fide Temp Fruit Cr Breed 59. 2008)
  
• Gene sources: graft stock relative for apricot   (fide Temp Fruit Cr Breed 59. 208)
  
• Gene sources: secondary genetic relative of apricot   (based on its affinities to Prunus armeniaca fide Theor Appl Genet 80:131. 1995)
  
• Materials: beads   (fide Bot Beads World; as web document)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Ency CNatIn; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Sichuan, Yunnan
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan [n.]
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indo-China: Laos [n.]; Vietnam [n.]

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Eastern Asia: Japan

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Korea
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indo-China: Laos [n.]; Thailand [n.]; Vietnam [n.]

References:

• 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).
• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam.
• Badenes, M. L. & D. E. Parfitt. 1995. Phylogenetic relationships of cultivated Prunus species from analysis of chloroplast DNA. Theor. Appl. Genet. 80:129–133. [this study included Prunus mume that grouped close to P. armeniaca].
• 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. [this study included Prunus mume that grouped with other members of section Armeniaca].
• CGC Prunus. 2010. Prunus vulnerability statement - 2010. 15. [recognized as of medium priority for apricot].
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• Folta, K. M. & S. E. Gardiner. 2009. Genomics-based opportunities in apricot. In: Folta, K. M. et al., eds., Genetics and genomics of Rosaceae. 15:315–335.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• 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 that Prunus mume is distinct from cultivars of apricot].
• Hayashi, K. et al. 2008. Genetic diversity in fruiting and flower-ornamental Japanese apricot (Prunus mume) germplasms assessed by SSR markers. Breed. Sci. 58:401–410.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Jiangsu Inst. Bot., ed. v. 1; Shan. R. H., ed. v. 2. 1977–1982. Jiangsu Zhiwuzhi (Flora of Jiangsu). [lists as P. mume (Siebold) Siebold & Zucc.].
• Ledbetter, C. A. 2008. Chapter 2. Apricots. In: Hancock, J. F., ed., Temperate fruit crop breeding: germplasm to genomics. 39–82. [this review cited Prunus mume and P. armeniaca as apricot species from the "Chinese center"; it mentioned the use of P. mume as a graft stock for apricot].
• Lee, S. & J. Wen. 2001. A phylogenetic analysis of Prunus and the Amygdaloideae (Rosaceae) using ITS sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA. Amer. J. Bot. 80:150–160. [this study found Prunus mume closer to P. persica than to P. armeniaca].
• Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea.
• Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Mehlenbacher, S. A. et al. 1991. Apricots (Prunus). Acta Hort. 290:65–110.
• Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:120.
• Natural Products Research Institute, Seoul National University. 1998. Medicinal plants in the Republic of Korea. WHO Regional Publications Western Pacific Series No. 21.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Shaw, J. & R. L. Small. 2004. Addressing the "hardest puzzle in American pomology:" Phylogeny of Prunus sect. Prunocerasus (Rosaceae) based on seven noncoding chloroplast DNA regions. Amer. J. Bot. 91:985–996.
• Smith, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource).
• Steward, A. N. 1958. Manual of vascular plants of the lower Yangtze valley. [cultivated].
• Verheij, E. W. M. & R. E. Coronel, eds. 1991. Edible fruits and nuts. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 2:262.
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. [cultivated].
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). [= Armeniaca mume Siebold].
• Zhebentyayeva, T. N. et al. 2003. Simple sequence repeat (SSR) analysis for assessment of genetic variability in apricot germplasm. Theor. Appl. Genet. 106:435–444.
• Zhebentyayeva, T. N. et al. 2008. Origin of resistance to plum pox virus in apricot: what new AFLP and targeted SSR data analyses tell. Tree Genet. Genomes 4:403–417. [this study commented on records of hybridization among apricot species].

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Synonyms:

• (=) Armeniaca mume Siebold
  
• (=) Prunus mume var. tonsa Rehder
  

Check other web resources for Prunus mume Siebold & Zucc.:

• 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 mume 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.

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