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Prunus

*Prunus mume (Siebold) Siebold & Zuccarini. Common name: Japanese Apricot. Phenology: (Dec-) Feb-Mar. Habitat: Suburban forests. Distribution: Native of s. Japan. Documented as naturalizing in Battle Park, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where apparently spread from cultivation and reproducing as early as 1939.

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Subgenus: Armeniaca.

Origin/Endemic status: E. and se. Asia

Synonymy ⓘ: = K4; = Armeniaca mume Siebold; = n/a — FNA9, RAB. Basionym: Armeniaca mume Siebold 1830

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