ALMOND TREE AMIG (prunus amygdalus)

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	ALMOND TREE AMIG
	*prunus amygdalus*

Name
ALMOND TREE AMIG

Scientific Name
prunus amygdalus

ALMOND TREE AMIG

Family: Rosaceous.

Description: Very graft tree, of up to 10 ms of height, with the opened, escamosa crust, of grayish color. Carrying greenish ramifications of alternating, oblong leaves, acuminadas, with the sawed margin; superior page of inferior shining green color and the opaque one. Short Pecíolo. Frequently, the teeth of the limb are carrying of some glands. The flowers, that appear before the leaves, show to a chalice pentasépalo and a corola pentapétala, of white and pink color. The fruit is one drupa oblong with epicarpio green, tomentoso, with a lateral furrow, and endocarpio ligneous interjection that contains a seed of brown color with the divided white pulp in two cotiledones, of characteristic flavor. This species is rare in its wild form, and often the olive tree in the Mediterranean zone cultivates itself along with. It is collected of July to September.

Used parts: The seeds.

Active Principles: Fruitful, greasy oil, emulsina, salts, vitamin To and B, proteins. The oil is formed by olein, peptona, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur and magnesium.

Indications: Nutritious, emollient, laxative, vitaminizante, béquico.

Way of use: Oil, milk, pulp.

Of Interest: The seeds (the almonds) are used in confectionery. The oil, that contains tocoferol, nonenrancia, and is used like eudérmico, the sweet variety is only the usable one in the familiar scope, since it lacks hydrocyanic acid, present however in the bitter variety. The remainders of the operations of extraction of the oil constitute an optimal one to manjar.

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