Fruit trees
Siberian apricot
Armeniaca sibirica (L.) Lam.
Family Rosaceae. Found on dry slopes, among thickets of rhododendrons and the Siberian apple, in Primorsky Krai, eastern Siberia, northern China, and Mongolia.
It differs from the Manchurian apricot by its smaller size (not exceeding 5 m in height), and by its small, more rounded leaves with an attenuate tip. The flowers are smaller, white with a reddish tint, abundant, almost sessile, adorning the tree for 7-10 days. The fruits are also smaller, with a dry, cracking orange pericarp at maturity, inedible but very ornamental and showy, decorating the whole plant during the fruiting period. All phases of seasonal development occur earlier than in the Manchurian apricot.
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