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Prunus fasciculata punctata (Prunus fasciculata punctata)

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:

        • Class: Magnoliopsida

          • Order: Rosales

            • Family: Rosaceae

              • Genus: Prunus