SOME PRUNUS’ THAT GROW IN EAST AND SUDEAST PROVINCE IN TURKEY AESTETIC AND ECOLOGIC FEATURES

In this study, considering the contribution of the use of natural vegetation materials in making the natural environment flexible in the adaptation process with global climate change, some species are indispensable elements of plant breeders and gardens, which have adapted to the arid habitat and are among the gene centers of Turkey. Morphological and ecological characteristics of almond taxa and their usage areas are explained. The research was carried out in the provinces of Adıyaman, Hakkâri, Malatya, Şanlıurfa and Van where Prunus taxa naturally occur in the Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia Regions of Turkey. Within the scope of the research, field studies were carried out by compiling literature records. The characteristic features of the taxa identified during the field studies were recorded by on-site observation, photographing and measurement method in the office. The identification of the specimens collected in accordance with the herbarium technique, together with the records kept, was carried out using Browicz (1972). According to the results obtained in the research, P. dulcis, P. orientalis and P. arabica are used in afforestation and erosion control areas, P. dulcis in almond orchard plant, P. orientalis and P. arabica are used as hedge plants, and some taxa are used as rootstock, and they grow in different ecological areas as well as form, leaf and flowers have been found to have a visual effect. In this study, it is aimed to introduce some basic biological, physiological, ecological and ethnobotanical characteristics, which is the first stage of the cultivation of natural plants, in order to find a place in the world ornamental plants market for some almond taxa, which are naturally distributed in the Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia Region, and to bring them into landscaping studies.