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Desert Almond (Prunus fasciculata)

Description

Prunus fasciculata grows up to 2 meters (6 feet) high, exceptionally larger, with horizontally branching (divaricate) branches, that may have a small amount of thorns (spinescent) often in thickets. The bark is grey and without hairs (glabrous).Desert Almond leaves, fruit and flower The leaves are 5-10 mm long, narrow (linear), with a broad, flatten tip that tapers down to a more narrow base, (spatulate, oblanceolate), arranged on very short leaf stem (petiole) like bundles of needles (fascicles). The flowers are small and white with 3-mm petals, occurring either solitary or in fascicles and are without a petal stem (subsessile) growing from the leaf axils. They are dioecious. Male flowers have 10-15 stamens; female, one or more pistils. The plant displays numerous fragrant flowers from March to May, which attract the bees that pollinate it. The drupe is about 1 cm long, ovoid, light brown and pubescent with thin flesh.[

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum: Magnoliophyta

        • Class: Magnoliopsida

          • Order: Rosales

            • Family: Rosaceae

              • Genus: Prunus