Prunus dulcis
Turkey (E-Anatolia, Inner Anatolia, N-Anatolia, NE-Anatolia, NW-Anatolia: Bithynia, S-Anatolia, SE-Anatolia, WN-Anatolia), East Aegaean Isl., Rhodos, Iran (EC-Iran, Iranian Aserbaijan, W-Iran), Iraq (NE-Iraq, SE-Iraq: Mesopotamia), Israel (N-Israel), Lebanon (Antilebanon, C-Lebanon), Syria (C-Syrian Desert), Afghanistan (c), Pakistan (Baluchistan, ?Kurram, Chitral), Pakistani Kashmir (Gilgit, Astor), Myanmar [Burma] (I), Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal, Saudi Arabia (I), Yemen (I), Oman (I), Albania (I), Austria (I), Baleares (I), Bulgaria (I), Corsica (I), Crete (I), Slovakia (I), France (I), Germany (I), Greece (I), Switzerland (I), Hungary (I), Italy (I), former Yugoslavia (I), Slovenia (I), Croatia (I), Portugal (I), Romania (I), Spain (I), Ukraine (I), Crimea (I), E-European Russia (I), Sardinia (I), Sicily (I), European Turkey (I), Northern Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Australia (I) (South Australia (I), New South Wales (I)), Taiwan (I), Mexico (c), China (I), Canary Isl. (I) (Fuerteventura (I), Gran Canaria (I), La Gomera (I), La Palma Isl. (I)), Madeira (I) (Madeira Isl. (I)), USA (I) (California (I), Utah (I)), Algeria (I), Morocco (I), Libya (I), Tunisia (I) 146992 0
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Based on Georgiades (1995).
Alien: Naturalized non-invasive.
Very widely cultivated and is sometimes found as an escape from cultivation. Newly recorded as adventive and invading natural habitats, mainly forests and maquis - mainly in Troodos - though at Episkopi and also in abandoned fields.
Cultivated since Roman times (Georgiades 1995).
Meikle RD (1977) Flora of Cyprus, Vol. 1.
Hadjikyriakou G, Hadjisterkotis E (2002) The adventive plants of Cyprus with new records of invasive species. Zeitschrift fur Jagdwissenschaft 48: 59–71. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02192393
Tsintides T, Hadjikyriakou GN, Christodoulou CS (2002) Trees and shrubs in Cyprus. Foundation Anastasios G. Leventis—Cyprus Forest Association, Nicosia, Cyprus.