Details for: DPRU 221, Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D. A. Webb, Almendro

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D. A. Webb

Top Name:

Almendro

Origin:

Donated – California, United States

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

01 Oct 1984

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Cutting

Life Form:

Tree

Life Habit:

Tree

Availability

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D. A. Webb

Top Name:

Almendro

Origin:

Donated – California, United States

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

01 Oct 1984

Improvement Status:

Cultivar

Form Received:

Cutting

Life Form:

Tree

Life Habit:

Tree

Source History

Donated

01 October 1984.
California, United States
Comment: Donated to NCGR, Davis
Donor(s):

University of California

Accession Names and Identifiers

Almendro

Type: Unverified name

Almendro De La P.

Type: Unverified name

R12T9

Type: Donor identifier

Donor location identifier

University of California

DPRU 221

Type: Site identifier

Narrative

Type = Almond. Per USDA Bulletin 1282, Almond Varieties in the United States, pg. 20-22: "Introduced in 1912, from Granada Spain, through Peter Giraud by Walter T. Swingle, of the United States Department of Agriculture. Distributed from the United States Plant Introduction Garden at Chico to a few places in California. Tree: Upright. Quite vigorous. Main branches - Upright, rather stocky, quite long. Twigs - Medium in length, moderately stocky. Lenticels - Medium to numerous; very slightly raised on old wood, on level with surface of bark or slightly depressed on young wood. Foliage - Moderately dense. Leaves moderately numerous on individual branches, often borne mostly on spurs. Blade - Variable in size, average large (1 by 4 inches; ratio of width to length, about 1:4). Shape oval, ovate, or elliptical, narrow. Petiole - Rather short. Nut: Immature nut - Very large, one of the most striking varieties in this regard (2 to 3 1/2 inches in diameter). Shape variable. Hull - Light green, pubescent. Ripens last of Augus and early September. Shape - Either flat or plump; inclined to be rectangular. Shell - Very thick (nearly 1/4 inch) and hard. Outer surface yellowish brown. Inner shell thick. Inner surface smooth and yellowish brown. Kernel - Large (1 by 5/8 by 1/4 inch); thin, flat, wide for length. Comments: Ripens early in the fall. Although the flavor of the kernel is excellent, the vary hard shell and small percentage of kernel are sufficient to exclude the nut from favor. A few trees are found in various orchards in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys of California, but the variety is not extensively grown at the present time and has no value as a commercial almond."

Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D. A. Webb

Genus:

Prunus

Subgenus:

Amygdalus

Family:

Rosaceae

Subfamily:

Amygdaloideae

Tribe:

Amygdaleae

Nomen number:

29890

Place of publication:

Feddes Repert. 74:24. 1967

Verified:

04/12/2011 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Basionym
Amygdalus dulcis Mill.

Autonym(s)
Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D. A. Webb var. dulcis

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Amygdalus communis L.
Amygdalus communis L. var. communis
Prunus amygdalus Batsch
Prunus communis (L.) Arcang.
Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D. A. Webb var. amara (DC.) Buchheim

Common names

Language	Name	note	seq	Citation
English	almond		1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English	bitter almond	as Amygdalus communis ‘Amara’	1	Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants Kampong Publications. Note: = Amygdalus communis L.
English	sweet almond	as Prunus dulcis var. dulcis	1	Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986-1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols. Note: = Prunus dulcis var. dulcis
French	amandier		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
French	amandier commun		2	Demilly, D. et al. 1996. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 6. Note: GEVES-SNES, Beaucouzé, France
German	Bittermandelbaum	as Prunus dulcis var. amara	2	Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage Note: = Prunus dulcis var. amara
German	Knackmandel		2	Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
German	Mandel		2	Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage
German	Mandelbaum		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Italian	mandorio		2	Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
Japanese Rōmaji	āmondo		2	Rosengarten, F. 1984. The book of edible nuts
Portuguese	amendoeira		2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Portuguese (Brazil)	amêndoa-amarga		2	Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Portuguese (Brazil)	amêndoa-doce		2	Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Spanish	almendro		2	Ortega-Sada, J. L. 1987. Flora de interes apicola y polinizacion de cultivos.
Swedish	bittermandel		2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Swedish	mandel		2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Chinese	bian tao	as Amygdalus communis	2	Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition). Note: = Amygdalus communis L.

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