characteristics...between 20° and 40° S, with California producing nearly 80 percent of the world’s supply. There are two varieties, sweet almond ( P. dulcis variety dulcis) and bitter almond ( P. dulcis variety amara). Sweet almonds are the familiar, edible type consumed as nuts and used in cooking or as a source of almond oil or almond meal.......in quantity. Peach pits, bitter almonds, and several kinds of wild cherry are poisonous to animals and humans. Almonds, which come from the pits of Prunus amygdalus, are of two kinds, bitter and sweet. Almond oil, used for flavouring, is extracted from the bitter almond. The crude oil contains considerable amygdalin and is poisonous, but this is removed during refining. The...
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