Argania spinosa L.
Arganier | Argan
Biosystematics
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Branch
- Spermaphytes
- Subphylum
- Angiospermes
- Class
- Dicotylédones
- Subclass
- Gamopétales
- Order
- Ericales
- General shape
- Tree
- Life cycle and type
- Perennial
- Specie parts
- Use
- Description
- appartient à une famille tropicale, celle des Sapotaceae, qui comprend environ 10 genres et 600 espèces. Espèce endémique spécifiquement marocaine, l'arganier est un arbre fruitier-forestier dont la taille ne dépasse guère 8 à 10 m.
- Family
- Sapotaceae
- Sub-family
- Genus
- Argania
- Arabic name
- الأرقان
Morphology
- Visible fruit/seeds
- Nitrogen fixation
- Known allelopath
- Natural regeneration capacity
- Remarkable flower
- Max height at maturity
- 700 cm
- Lifespan
- 1500 Month
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Flower color
#f2e48b
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Foliage color
#a9c47b
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Fruit/seed color
#eaeb95
- C:N ratio (Fertility)
- High
- Foliage type
- Evergreen
- Leaf porosity Summer
- High
- Leaf porosity Winter
- Dense
- Foliage texture
- Dense
- Growth rate
- Low
- Root system depth
- Deep
- Active growth period
- Spring Summer
Biology
- Fruit/seed persistence
- Fruit/seed abundance
- Tendency to conserve
- Duration of seed dispersal
- 45 Day
- Water content
- 43 %
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Beginning of fruit/seed period 2023-04-07
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End of fruit/seed period 2023-06-22
- Maturation
- Summer Autumn
- Flowering period
- Spring
- Reproduction
- Sexual and vegetative
- Seed dispersal unit
- Fleshy fruit
- Type of release
- Zoochory
- Dispersal area
- Low
- Pollinators
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- Wind Bee Wasps Flies
- Shade tolerance
- Low
- Grazing tolerance
- High
- CaCO3 tolerance
- Medium
- Seed longevity (germination power)
- espece.longue
Multiplication
- Seed dormancy
- Commercial availability of seeds
- Light effect
- Reforestation potential
- Weight of 1000 seeds
- 0.69 Kg
- Seed impurity
- 46 %
- Latency period
- 2 Days
- Germination rate
- 80 %
- Germination speed
- 4 Days
- Average germination time (DMG)
- 6 Days
- Optimal temperature for germination
- 28 C°
- Plant density
- 1200 Ha