Shrub very resistant to drought, evergreen. Can also be used as cut foliage.
Difficult to form well in crop, pinch by warm weather to ramify. Almonds are edible.
Evergreen shrub or small tree native from the Mediterranean regions. The compound foliage, gray-green, becomes purple by cold weather. The tree is dioecious (♀ and ♂ on different plants). In spring, clusters of small red apetalous flowers appear between March and June and are followed by red then black berries on the ♀ plants.