Species · Rosaceae

Almond

Prunus dulcis. Rosaceae, genus Prunus. What this plant is called and where it is recorded, plus the published numbers the keystone holds so far.

Rank
species
Names
70 in 39 languages
Numbers
20 (20 with a source)
Keystone status
partial

Names

No scientific synonyms are recorded for this name.

English: Plums, Cherries, And Allies, Almond, Cherry, Plum, Cherries, cherry, cherry trees, Chokecherry, Flowering Cherry, Planted Cherry, Plum.

In other languages

  • Afrikaans: Kersies & Pruime
  • Arabic: خوخ
  • Belarusian: Сліва
  • Catalan: Pruneres i ametllers
  • Chinese: 李属, 李屬, 梅屬, 櫻屬
  • Czech: slivoň
  • Danish: Blomme, Blommeslægten, Kirsebær
  • Estonian: Toompuu, toompuud
  • Finnish: kirsikat, luumut, tuomet
  • French: Prunier
  • German: Kirsche
  • Greek: Προύνος
  • Hebrew: פרונוס
  • Italian: Pruni
  • Japanese: サクラ属, スモモ属, 核果類
  • Korean: 겹벚꽃나무속, 벚꽃나무속, 벚나무속
  • Lithuanian: Slyva
  • Norwegian (Bokmål): kirsebærslekta
  • Norwegian (Nynorsk): kirsebærslekta
  • Persian: پرونوس
  • Polish: Śliwa
  • Russian: Прунус, Слива
  • Slovak: slivka
  • Slovene: sliva in sorodniki
  • Swahili: Mplamu
  • Swedish: plommonsläktet, plommonsväxter, prunusar
  • Thai: สกุล พรุน
  • Turkish: Prunus, şeftali
  • Ukrainian: Слива (рід)
  • Vietnamese: Chi Mận mơ
  • aze: Gavalı
  • epo: Prunuso
  • gla: sirist, siristean
  • hye: Սալորենի
  • kat: კურკოვანი კულტურები
  • kaz: Алхоры
  • kur: Dembûl
  • nor: Kirsebærslekten

Names with no language recorded: Icho intakkosáwwa, Pflaume, Stianfrüchtbuumer, КъымцӀэ, ᏔᏯ, 벚나무속.

Where it is recorded

  • USDA PLANTS: PRDU
  • FAOSTAT item code: 9b84beed-7ad2-46
  • GRIN: 29890
  • Wikidata: Q39918

Taxonomy record sources: GBIF (CC BY 4.0), USDA_PLANTS_CATALOG (Public Domain). Loaded from the botanica open cultivated-plant knowledge base and the GBIF backbone; each row keeps its origin.

What the sources say it wants

Each line shows the band, then the kind of source and the citation. "Published" means the number is printed on the cited page; "derived" means it was computed from published numbers with the formula recorded on the row; "external API" rows are refreshed nightly from a live source; "curated" rows are OAT's own working values from June 2026.

Whole cycle

ZoneMeasureBandSource
Root zoneRoot-zone EC (dS/m)up to 1.5 (warning above 2, alert above 2.8)published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 29, 1985
TimingCrop coefficient, end of season (ratio)0.6518published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998
TimingCrop coefficient, initial stage (ratio)0.4published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998
TimingCrop coefficient, mid-season (ratio)0.9published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998

Phenophases observed by the USA National Phenology Network

16 phenophases are tracked for this species and refreshed nightly, as stage triggers: >=50% of leaves colored, >=50% of leaves fallen, >=75% of full leaf size, All leaves colored, All leaves fallen, Breaking leaf buds, Colored leaves, Early season leaf expansion, Falling leaves, Flowers or flower buds, Fruits, Full flowering, Leaves, Open flowers, Recent fruit or seed drop, Ripe fruits.

Keystone status

Partial. The KEEP rule asks for a growth stage and a band in each of light, air and root zone before a crop counts as complete; this plant is in the keystone with what its sources give so far.

Generated 2026-09-15 from the OAT plant keystone. Source types and citations are carried on every row; the keystone snapshot that the Library instruments read is plant-targets.json and its quality sheet is plant-targets.quality.json.