Aesthetic and ecological characteristics of Prunus Taxa in landscape design: A Study in eastern and southeastern provinces of Türkiye

Abstract

Plants play a crucial role in landscape design and are at the heart of landscape design. Climate change's purposeful plant choices could improve landscape design. In this study, it is tackeled using some native Subgen Amygdalus taxa in the landscape to make the natural environment flexible against global climate change, as some species are indispensable elements of plant breeders and gardens, which have adapted to the arid habitat and Türkiye is among the gene centers. The research was carried out in rural areas, afforestation areas and gardens in the provinces of Adıyaman, Hakkâri, Malatya, Şanlıurfa and Van and detected taxa were recorded on form through on-site observation, photographing and collected in accordance with the herbarium technique later to identify according to Browicz (1972) and Yazbek (2010). After field studies, the aesthetic and ecological characteristics of each of Subgenus Amygdalus were evaluated based on plant design. In the course of study fields, it was determined that P. dulcis, P. orientalis and P. arabica are used in afforestation and erosion control areas, P. dulcis in almond orchard plant, P. arabica, P. orientalis and P. spinosisima are used as hedge plants, and some taxa are used as rootstock and and they grow in different ecological areas with outstanding visual effect. In this study, it is aimed to determine Subgen Amygdalus growing naturally in study area, their aesthectic and ecologic features and the roles they can undertake in the landscape against climate crisis and to be introduced.