Prunus armeniaca
ζ*P. armeniaca L. ζ*, apricot, is widely cultivated for its fr. and occasionally occurs as a garden or orchard escape (e.g., CHR 230670, Christchurch, Given, 1981). A somewhat rounded, small, unarmed, deciduous tree; lf blade elliptic-ovate, broadly ovate or suborbicular, 50-80 × 30-50 mm, glabrous or almost so, dull, serrate to obscurely 2-serrate; apex acute or shortly acuminate; fls subsessile, solitary but sometimes crowded on short shoots; petals usually white, occasionally very pale pink; fr. 30-60 mm diam., sulcate, velutinous and yellow to orange with a smooth stone. This sp. has also been known in N.Z. as Armeniaca vulgaris. (C. Asia and China, 1940).
