Prunus fasciculata |
Prunus fasciculata var. fasciculata |
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desert almond, desert peach, wild almond |
desert almond |
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Habit | Shrubs, suckering, much branched, 10–20(–30) dm, thorny. | |||||
Twigs | with axillary end buds, glabrous or canescent. |
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Leaves | deciduous; sessile; blade oblanceolate to linear, 0.5–2 × 0.1–0.2(–0.4) cm, base long-attenuate, margins nearly entire or obscurely and remotely serrulate in distal 1/3, teeth blunt to sharp, sometimes glandular, apex rounded to acute, surfaces puberulent or glabrous or low-papillate (var. punctata). |
blades sparsely to densely puberulent, not papillate. |
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Inflorescences | solitary flowers or 2-flowered fascicles. |
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Pedicels | 0–4 mm, glabrous. |
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Flowers | unisexual, plants dioecious, blooming at leaf emergence; hypanthium campanulate, 1.5–3 mm, glabrous externally; sepals erect-spreading, triangular, 0.7–1 mm, margins entire, surfaces glabrous; petals white to yellowish, elliptic, obovate, or suborbiculate, 1.4–2.5(–4) mm; ovaries hairy. |
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Drupes | gray to red-brown, ovoid, ± compressed, 7–15 mm, densely puberulent; hypanthium tardily deciduous; mesocarps leathery to dry; stones ovoid, ± flattened. |
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Prunus fasciculata |
Prunus fasciculata var. fasciculata |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–May; fruiting May–Jul. | |||||
Habitat | Sandy or gravelly washes, dry mountain slopes, desert scrub, pinyon-juniper-Joshua tree woodlands | |||||
Elevation | 200–2100 m (700–6900 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
AZ; CA; NV; UT; nw Mexico
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AZ; CA; NV; UT; Mexico (Baja California) |
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 370. | FNA vol. 9, p. 370. | ||||
Parent taxa | Rosaceae > subfam. Amygdaloideae > tribe Amygdaleae > Prunus | Rosaceae > subfam. Amygdaloideae > tribe Amygdaleae > Prunus > Prunus fasciculata | ||||
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Synonyms | Emplectocladus fasciculatus | |||||
Name authority | (Torrey) A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 10: 70. (1874) | unknown | ||||
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