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[[Image:Apricot tree flowers.jpg|thumb|left|Apricot flowers in the village of Benhama, [[Kashmir]].]] | |||
'''''Prunus tiliifolia''''', called the '''Wild Himalayan apricot''' and '''Sweet apricot''',<ref>{{GRIN | accessdate=January 24, 2014}}</ref> is a deciduous [[apricot tree]] found in [[South-central Asia]] and [[East Asia]]. It is of the family [[Rosaceae]] and the genus ''[[Prunus]]''. | '''''Prunus tiliifolia''''', called the '''Wild Himalayan apricot''' and '''Sweet apricot''',<ref>{{GRIN | accessdate=January 24, 2014}}</ref> is a deciduous [[apricot tree]] found in [[South-central Asia]] and [[East Asia]]. It is of the family [[Rosaceae]] and the genus ''[[Prunus]]''. | ||
Its range extends in the [[Himalayas]] from [[Gilgit Baltistan]] in North [[Pakistan]], to [[Central Asia]], [[Iran]] and [[West Asia]]. It grows in [[temperate forest]] from {{convert|1200|-|2400|m|ft}} in elevation.<ref>{{Cite journal |doi = 10.1094/PDIS-91-12-1686C|pmid = 30780621|title = Wild Himalayan Cherry (Prunus cerasoides) as a Natural Host of Prunus necrotic ringspot virus in India|journal = Plant Disease|volume = 91|issue = 12|pages = 1686|year = 2007|last1 = Chandel|first1 = V.|last2 = Rana|first2 = T.|last3 = Hallan|first3 = V.|last4 = Zaidi|first4 = A. A.|doi-access = free}}</ref> | Its range extends in the [[Himalayas]] from [[Gilgit Baltistan]] in North [[Pakistan]], to [[Central Asia]], [[Iran]] and [[West Asia]]. It grows in [[temperate forest]] from {{convert|1200|-|2400|m|ft}} in elevation.<ref>{{Cite journal |doi = 10.1094/PDIS-91-12-1686C|pmid = 30780621|title = Wild Himalayan Cherry (Prunus cerasoides) as a Natural Host of Prunus necrotic ringspot virus in India|journal = Plant Disease|volume = 91|issue = 12|pages = 1686|year = 2007|last1 = Chandel|first1 = V.|last2 = Rana|first2 = T.|last3 = Hallan|first3 = V.|last4 = Zaidi|first4 = A. A.|doi-access = free}}</ref> | ||
Apricots have been cultivated in [[Persia]] since antiquity, and dried ones were an important commodity on Persian trade routes. Apricots remain an important fruit in modern-day [[Iran]]. | |||
An article on Apricot cultivation in [[Andalusia]] of Spain is brought down in [[Ibn al-'Awwam]]'s 12th-century agricultural work, ''Book on Agriculture''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Ibn al-'Awwam|first=Yaḥyá|url=https://archive.org/details/lelivredelagric00algoog/page/n14/mode/2up|title=Le livre de l'agriculture d'Ibn-al-Awam (kitab-al-felahah)|publisher=A. Franck|year=1864|location=Paris|pages=313–315 (ch. 7 – Article 40)|language=fr|translator=J.-J. Clement-Mullet|oclc=780050566|author-link=Ibn al-'Awwam}} (pp. [[iarchive:lelivredelagric00algoog/page/n421/mode/1up|313]]–315 (Article XL)</ref> | |||
[[Egypt]]ians usually dry apricots, add sweetener, and then use them to make a drink called ''amar al-dīn''. | |||
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