☙ Almond

Prunus amygdalus Batsch (1801)

= Amygdalus communis L. (1753);WFO

= Amygdalus dulcis Mill. (1768).WFO

Period English: almond; almond tree; common almond; Jordan almond ▲︎. EWW

Period French: amandier m. BD CLT JDS

Period German: Mandelbaum m. ('almond-tree'). JDS

Sentiments:

Note: all sentiments relate to the blossom.

Imprudence ◼︎ (1811); BD

Heedlessness ▲︎◆︎ (1825-1850); HP:FE TTA LH S&K HGA:OT

Stupidity ▲︎ (1836); TTA

Indiscretion ▲︎ (1839-1840); FS CHW

ÉtourderieThoughtlessness ◼︎ (1841); JDS

Thoughtlessness ◆︎ (1869); RT:LOF

Region:

Native: Transcaucasus.WFO

Introduced: Canary Islands; Northern Africa; Middle and Western Asia; Pakistan; West Himalaya; Southern and Western Europe; Great Britain; Western USA.WFO

Seasonality: Deciduous tree, flowers early spring before the leaves appear, fruits in autumn.

Period Colours: The flowers are very small, and of a pale colour, inclining to white. EWW ... from the fine blush of the apple-blossom, to a snowy whiteness. RT:LOF

Cited Verse:

❧ Virgil (tr. John Dryden), Georgics (Husbandry), Book I (c.29 BCE, tr.1697) lines 272-279 p.19;

❧ Plutarch (ed. William W. Goodwin), Quaestiones Convivales, Book 1 (c.100 AD, tr.1874) 6.4 (Plut. Quaes. Conv. 1.6.4);

❧ “Book III - Argument”, Homer, The Iliad (c.8th century);

❧ “Canto VII”, Stanza XXXII, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I (1590) lines 275-283;

❧ “The Light of the Haram”, Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh, An Oriental Romance (1817) pp.324-325.