Apricot

Apricot (Prunus armeniaca), 2-10 m high, with thorns and a lint-free tree.

 

The leaves are long and lanceolate, toothed edges, and sharp or blunt tip. The flowers are white or pink in color, occur before the leaves. Over the fruit is hairy, yellowish-orange color is a drupe.

 

Apricot, instead of geographically distributed almost all over the world, though in countries that are very close to Mediterranean Europe, Central Asia, the United States and spread to Africa and find areas where growth. Turkey ranks first in the world apricot production. Turkey Spain, Italy, United States Community, Iran, France, Greece and the USA. This apricot production of the first group of countries is over 100 thousand tons. The first group from Morocco, Pakistan, Syria, China, South Africa, Hungary, the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Australia, respectively.

 

There are 6 apricot region of Turkey where approximately 10-15% of the world apricot production.