Prunus × dasycarpa

Prunus × dasycarpa, called purple apricot and black apricot (Chinese: zi xing), is a species of tree. It is in the genus Prunus in the rose family, Rosaceae. The species was named by Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart in 1791.^[1] The buds are reddish-orange, and the flower blossoms are white. It is likely a hybrid of P. armeniaca × P. cerasifera (i.e., an apricot–cherry plum cross).^[2] There is disagreement about whether this is a human-cultivated cross or a naturally occurring cross from Western Asia.^[1][3][4]

Prunus × dasycarpa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Rosales
Family:	Rosaceae
Genus:	Prunus
Species:	P. × dasycarpa
Binomial name
Prunus × dasycarpa Ehrh.
Synonyms
Armeniaca dasycarpa (Ehrh.) Borkh.