Well, I am not too sure. I thing it was called hardy almond. We were looking in the nut tree sections of several catalogs and ordered 2 or 3 which didn’t survive the winter.
So we oredered some more and planted them in another part of the yard and they survived. None of them were advertised as being fruit trees. They were just plain ole hardy almonds.
Hubby came in and said looky here our almond tree has turned into a peach tree. He cut the fruit and found what looked like a fruit pit. Well maybe there was a mixup we thought and they sent us a peach tree?
So I said split the stone pit and she what’s inside, and there it was-an almond nut. That is the extent of what I know. Gonna have to put it on the winter research list.LOL
she=see please forgive all my typos and transpostions, my fingers don’t always type what I am thinking in the right order, I try to catch it before posting, but don’t always.
The inner nut of the peach and apricot pits are related to almonds. The kernels of apricot and peach pits have a similar flavor and the same toxic effect (destroyed by heating) as bitter almonds.
That almond plant. Is it supposed to be a large tree or a regular plant?
I’m encouraged to order the Starks one then. It’s supposedly useable as both. You eat the peaches and then you can eat the pits/almonds too.
Peaches, almonds, plums, and apricots are all pretty closely related, but every description I’ve read of almond fruit said that they were green and astringent.
If you crack open any of the stonefruits I listed, the seed will look like an almond. But they also contain cyanide. As far as I know, only the “Sweet Pit Apricot” can be used for both without any special treatment.
(You can detroy the cyanide in the other ones by roasting the nuts. They can then be used like almonds.)
In short, I’m confused. Sounds like a tree got the wrong label put on it.