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Prunus mira
Also called Smooth Pit Peach, Tibetan Peach
Prunus mira is a small tree from the Himalayan foothills and Tibetan plateau, grown for its fruit, seeds and oil. It needs cold winters and well-drained soil, and it is grown mainly where the climate is cool and dry.
Prunus mira, the smooth stone peach, smooth-pit peach or Tibetan peach, and locally called behmi, behimi or tirul, is a species of Prunus native to the foothills of the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau, at elevations typically between 2,600 m (8,500 ft) and 3,000 m (9,800 ft), but ranging from 2,000 m (6,600 ft) to 4,000 m (13,000 ft).
The trees are cultivated in some parts of their native range, for their fruit (which is often pickled), their seeds (as a substitute for almonds), and for their seed oil, which is used for cooking and hair oil. The rootstocks are used for almonds and for dwarfing peach trees, and are resistant to powdery mildew.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Prunus mira by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
Pet safety from the ASPCA toxic and non-toxic plant lists.
