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Smooth stone peach
Prunus mira
Prunus mira, the smooth stone peach, smooth-pit peach or Tibetan peach, and locally called behmi, behimi or tirul, is a species of Prunus native to the foothills of the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau, at elevations typically between 2,600 m (8,500 ft) and 3,000 m (9,800 ft), but ranging from 2,000 m (6,600 ft) to 4,000 m (13,000 ft).
From the article Prunus mira on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Prunus mira grows to 8–12 m (26–39 ft) tall and the trunks 16 cm (6.3 in) in diameter (DBH). The leaves are lanceolate, 5–10 cm (2.0–3.9 in) long and 1.2–4 cm (0.47–1.57 in) wide. The flowers are pinkish white. The 2 by 3 cm (0.79 by 1.18 in) ovoid fruit has white flesh. As the common name suggests, the stone is smooth.
At the table
The trees are cultivated in some parts of their native range, for their fruit (which is often pickled), their seeds (as a substitute for almonds), and for their seed oil, which is used for cooking and hair oil. The rootstocks are used for almonds and for dwarfing peach trees, and are resistant to powdery mildew.
Wikipedia: “Uses”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Prunus mira in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 543499.