page_title: Prunus brigantina
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Prunus brigantina / Description
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Prunus Brigantiaca = Prunier de Briançon.
context_page_description: Prunus brigantina, called Briançon apricot, marmot plum, and alpine apricot, is a wild tree species native to France and Italy. It is the only apricot-like Prunus species native to Europe.
  The fruit is similar to the commercial apricot Prunus armeniaca, and is edible. An edible oil produced from the seed, 'huile des marmottes', is used in France.
context_section_description: Unlike the other closely related species known as apricots, the fruit is smooth rather than hairy.
caption: Illustration by Pancrace Bessa, from Nouveau Duhamel, ou traité des arbres et arbustes que l'on cultive en France by Duhamel, 1812
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