• Family : Rosaceae
  (Rose Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GULAB FAMILY (गुलाब फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : Rosaceae
• Synonym(s) : Amygdalus amara Duhamel; Amygdalus amygdalina Oken ex M.Roem.; Amygdalus amygdalus (Batsch) Frye & Rigg; Amygdalus cochinchinensis Lour.; Amygdalus communis L.; Amygdalus communis var. fragilis Ser.; Amygdalus communis var. macrocarpa Ser.; Amygdalus decipiens Poit. & Turpin; Amygdalus dulcis Mill.; Amygdalus elata Salisb.; Amygdalus korshinskyi var. bornmuelleri Browicz; Amygdalus sativa Mill.; Amygdalus sinensis Steud.; Amygdalus stocksiana Boiss.; Druparia amygdalus (Batsch) Clairv. Persica Mill.; Prunus cochinchinensis (Lour.) Koehne; Prunus communis (L.) Arcang.; Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D.A.Webb; Prunus dulcis var. amara (Duhamel) Buchheim ;Prunus dulcis var. fragilis (Ser.) Buchheim; Prunus dulcis var. spontanea (Korsh.) Buchheim; Prunus stocksiana (Boiss.) Brandis;Trichocarpus Neck.
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Prunus amygdalus Batsch
• Common name : Almond, Sweet almond
• Vernacular name : Badam (Hindi); Baadaami (Kannada); Badam (Malayalam); Badam (Marathi); Vatamam (Sanskrit); Vaadumai (Tamil); Badam (Urdu)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Cultivated
• Comments / notes : The almond fruit is 3.5-6 cm long. The outer covering, fleshy in other members of Prunus such as the plum and cherry, is instead a thick, leathery, grey-green coat, called the hull. Inside the hull is a netveinedd, hard, woody shell (like the outside of a peach pit) called the endocarp. Inside the shell is the edible seed, commonly called a nut. After the fruit matures, the hull splits and separates from the shell, and an abscission layer forms between the stem and the fruit so that the fruit can fall from the tree.
• Distribution :
  • Uttarakhand : Dehradun district
• Native : Transcaucasus
• Exotic/Native : Exotic
• World Distribution : Afghanistan, Algeria, Baleares, California, Canary Is., Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., France, Great Britain, Greece, Idaho, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Morocco, Pakistan, Palestine, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Washington, Yugoslavia
• Literature : Photographs of K. Sankara Rao
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Navendu Page, Deepak Kumar (2020). Pan India Bouquets. http://flora-peninsula-indica.ces.iisc.ac.in/pan/plants.php?name=Prunus dulcis. Downloaded on 9 December 2022.

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