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Prunus fasciculata

Prunus fasciculata var. punctata

desert almond, desert peach, wild almond
Photo is of parent taxon

desert almond, sand almond
Habit Shrubs, suckering, much branched, 10–20(–30) dm, thorny.
Twigs

with axillary end buds, glabrous or canescent.

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 glabrous, sometimes papillate.
Inflorescences

solitary flowers or 2-flowered fascicles.

Pedicels

0–4 mm, glabrous.

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.

Drupes

gray to red-brown, ovoid, ± compressed, 7–15 mm, densely puberulent;

hypanthium tardily deciduous;

mesocarps leathery to dry;

stones ovoid, ± flattened.

Prunus fasciculata

Prunus fasciculata var. punctata
Phenology Flowering Mar–Apr; fruiting Apr–Jun.
Habitat Sandy or grassy slopes and mesas, coastal scrub, oak woodlands
Elevation 10–200 m (0–700 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; NV; UT; nw Mexico
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from FNA
CA
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Discussion

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Prunus fasciculata var. punctata occupies a narrow range along the coast of California in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Key
1. Leaf blades sparsely to densely puberulent, not papillate.
var. fasciculata
1. Leaf blades glabrous, sometimes papillate.
var. punctata
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
Sibling taxa
P. americana, P. andersonii, P. angustifolia, P. armeniaca, P. avium, P. caroliniana, P. cerasifera, P. cerasus, P. domestica, P. dulcis, P. emarginata, P. eremophila, P. fremontii, P. geniculata, P. glandulosa, P. gracilis, P. havardii, P. hortulana, P. ilicifolia, P. laurocerasus, P. lusitanica, P. mahaleb, P. maritima, P. mexicana, P. minutiflora, P. murrayana, P. myrtifolia, P. nigra, P. padus, P. pensylvanica, P. persica, P. pumila, P. rivularis, P. serotina, P. speciosa, P. spinosa, P. subcordata, P. subhirtella, P. texana, P. tomentosa, P. umbellata, P. virginiana, P. yedoensis
P. fasciculata var. fasciculata
Subordinate taxa
P. fasciculata var. fasciculata, P. fasciculata var. punctata
Synonyms Emplectocladus fasciculatus
Name authority (Torrey) A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 10: 70. (1874) Jepson: Fl. Calif. 2: 230. (1936)
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