Paper Skin Almond

In general, almond plant with the scientific name of prunes amygdales is native to Central Asia especially Afghanistan due its best climate to growth this kind of plants and Iran. The largest producer of this product in the world is the United States of America. Iran is the fourth largest producer of almonds. (Almond production is strongly influenced by the type of climate.)

Paper skin almonds are a valuable source of protein, calcium, magnesium, iron, potassium and vitamin E. One of the best varieties due to the high quality of the product and its reasonable price is paper almonds, which in addition to exporting abroad, in The domestic market is also popular.

Although, United State of America is the biggest producer of this plant but Afghanistan paper skin almond is much more beloved in the world due to its best quality looks like its pine nuts and saffron that the best in the world.

Paper skin almond is a type of tree almond that has a thin and brittle bark. This cultivar, like Azar almond, Mamra almond and Shahroudi almond cultivars, has 12 incompatible fertilities and also its fruiting habit is of spore type. In terms of flowering time, it is considered early flowering and productive. Paper almond is also known as white almond or Najafabadi. The useful life of this plant is about 25 to 30 years, its kernel percentage is estimated at 55% and the percentage Grain twins are very few and far between.

The almond blossoms are white to pale pink like cherry blossoms, the leaves are lanceolate, long, slender and slightly wavy, and the almond fruits are hairy and green; often only one seed or kernel is formed inside the fruit (2-seed filling occurs very rarely inside the fruit).