Editing Apricot (section)

{{short description|Cultivated fruit}}
{{About|the trees and their fruit}}
{{use American English|date=March 2022}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|name = Apricot
|image = Apricot and cross section.jpg
|image_caption = Apricot and its cross-section
|taxon = Prunus sect. Armeniaca
|authority = ([[Scop.]]) [[Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Koch|Koch]]
|subdivision_ranks = [[Species]]
|subdivision = See text.
|type_species = ''[[Prunus armeniaca]]'' <small>[[L.]]</small>
|}}

An '''apricot''' ({{IPAc-en|us|ˈ|æ|p|ɹ|ɪ|k|ɒ|t|audio=En-us-apricot-2.ogg}}, {{IPAc-en|uk|ˈ|eɪ|p|ɹ|ɪ|k|ɒ|t|audio=En-uk-apricot.ogg}}) is a [[fruit]], or the tree that bears the fruit, of several species in the genus ''[[Prunus]]''.

Usually an apricot is from the species ''[[Prunus armeniaca|P. armeniaca]]'', but the fruits of the other species in ''Prunus'' sect. ''Armeniaca'' are also called apricots.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last1=Shi|first1=Shuo|last2=Li|first2=Jinlu|last3=Sun|first3=Jiahui|last4=Yu|first4=Jing|last5=Zhou|first5=Shiliang|date=2013|title=Phylogeny and classification of ''Prunus sensu lato'' (Rosaceae)|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jipb.12095|journal=Journal of Integrative Plant Biology|language=en|volume=55|issue=11|pages=1069–1079|doi=10.1111/jipb.12095|issn=1744-7909|pmid=23945216|bibcode=2013JIPB...55.1069S |access-date=2021-02-16|archive-date=2021-01-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128010507/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jipb.12095|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In 2022, world production of apricots was 3.9 million [[tonne]]s, led by [[Turkey]] with 21% of the total.