Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
4. living organisms (entities)
5. Eukaryota (domain)
6. Plantae (kingdom)
7. Angiospermae (division)
8. Magnoliopsida (class)
9. Rosanae (superorder)
10. Rosales (order)
11. Rosaceae (family)

Narrower term/s

• Prunus domestica (species)
• Prunus dulcis (species)
• Prunus armeniaca (species)
• cherry (plant)
• Prunus persica (species)
• plum (plant)
• Prunus serotina (species)
• Prunus cerasus (species)
• Prunus avium (species)
• Prunus mahaleb (species)

Anotations

Scope note:

Genus containing over 400 species of flowering shrubs and trees, including the cultivated almond, peach, plum, cherry, and apricot. Some classifications separate peaches, almonds, and flowering almonds into the separate genus Amygdalus. However, a recent DNA study concluded that Prunus is monophyletic and is descended from one Eurasian ancestor. The earliest known fossil Prunus dates from the middle Eocene of the Princeton Chert of British Columbia.