Amygdalus scoparia Spach Prunus scoparia is a wild almond primarily found in the Zagros forests of Iran[1] but also distributed across Turkey, Turkmenistan, and Afghanistan.

[citation needed] It is a xerophytic shrub and it has been used as a grafting stock for domesticated almonds to provide drought resistance.

[2][3] Its seeds are consumed by rural Iranians as a cheap source of high-quality protein.

[1] Its leaves are the primary food of the larvae of Parornix turcmeniella moths.

In recent scholarship, it is sometimes referenced as Persian gum after the model of gum arabic,[4] although this name is also used for the commercially unimportant P. lycioides[1] and for the resin of the unrelated Astragalus sarcocolla.