Know the mountain almonds

Mountain almonds

Mountain almond is the name of a green shrub with small, narrow leaves in the semi-arid climate of Iran. Almond is a mountain from the flower of Sorkhian family. The average height of the plant is between 2.5-5 m and the diameter of the canopy is 2 to 2.5 m. Almond white flowers usually appear before the emergence of leaves in early April. The seeds of this plant, which after eating sweets, are usually harvested from early June until the end of this month.

Almond almond habitat

Mountain almonds are found in deep, semi-deep soils, pebbles, and on limestone-siliceous bodies in gentle mountain peaks. The native of Iran and the Middle East region, the vastness of the southern, central and northeastern parts of Iran, is in the calcareous rocky mountains. Altitudes range from 800 to 2700 meters above sea level, 150 to 250 mm in rain line.

geographical location

This plant grows in mountainous regions in Fars, Kerman, Khuzestan, Sistan and Baluchestan, Yazd, Arak, Kurdistan, Bakhtiari, Tehran, Middle and Lorestan provinces and in different types of soil.

Other cases

• Arjnak – or almonds Zagros and almonds Arak, a kind of almonds, whose distribution is limited to southern Zagros in Iran.
• Ergene – or almonds, a kind of almonds that are widely used in Iran and Turkmenistan.
• Tangier – or almond or almond, a kind of almond that is only available in Iran’s southern Zagros.
• Almond Gennoyi – or Archen, a kind of almond that is unique to the southern and southeastern provinces of Iran.
• Eastern almonds – a kind of wild almonds that is native to the west of Iran and northern Iraq.