Dense, deciduous shrub or tree to 8 m high, sometimes suckering; branches sometimes spiny; young twigs glabrescent. Leaves ovate-lanceolate to elliptic, 3–12 cm long, 1–3 cm wide, base obtuse, apex rounded or acute, margins finely serrate-crenate, glabrous; petiole 10–25 mm long, glabrous. Flowers solitary or in pairs on short lateral shoots, appearing before the leaves; pedicles 1–5 mm long, glabrous. Sepals rounded, glabrous except for pubescent margins; petals obovate, elliptic or suborbicular, pink, fading to whitish-pink or white. Drupe ovoid-oblong, 35–60 mm long, tomentose, grey-green, flesh dry; stone ellipsoid, strongly flattened, pitted, keeled. Flowers Jul.–Aug.
Wim, GleP, VVP, VRiv, Gold, CVU, DunT, NIS, HSF. Also naturalised WA, SA. Native to northern Africa and western Asia. Widely cultivated for its edible stone (almond), rarely recorded outside of cultivation in Victoria.
