Pluot
Pluots, apriums, apriplums, plumcots, plumpicots, or pluclots are some of the hybrids between different Prunus species that are also called interspecific plums. Whereas plumcots and apriplums are first-generation hybrids between a plum parent (P. salicina[1]) and an apricot (P. armeniaca), pluots and apriums are later-generations.[2][3] Both names "plumcot" and "apriplum" have been used for trees derived from a plum seed parent, and are therefore equivalent.
Plumcots and apriplums
[edit | edit source]Natural plumcots (also called apriplums) have been known for hundreds of years from regions of the world that grow both plums and apricots from seed.[4] The name plumcot was coined by Luther Burbank.[5] The plumcot (apriplum) tree is propagated asexually, primarily by grafting or budding.
Pluots
[edit | edit source]Pluots /ˈpluːɒt/ are later generations of complex hybrid between the Japanese plum, Prunus salicina (providing the greater amount of parentage), and the apricot, Prunus armeniaca.[6][7] The fruit's exterior has smooth skin closely resembling that of a plum. Pluots were developed in the late 20th century by Floyd Zaiger.[8]
Pluot varieties include:[9]
- Candy Stripe: medium, pink-yellow striped, with very sweet and juicy flesh.[9]
- Cherry: small, bright red skin with white flesh.[9]
- Dapple Dandy: large sweet with pale green to yellow, red-spotted skin, red or pink juicy flesh.[9]
- Flavorella: round, medium-sized, golden-yellow, with sweet and juicy flesh.[9]
- Flavor Heart: very large, black with a heart shape, and yellow flesh.[9]
- Flavor King: very sweet, medium or large, with red-purple skin and red flesh.[9]
- Flavorosa: very sweet or tart, medium-sized, flat round dark-purple fruit with red flesh.[9]
- Flavor Prince: large round and purple, with red flesh.[9]
- Flavor Rich: medium-sweet, large black round fruit with orange flesh.[9]
- Flavor Supreme: medium or large, greenish purple skin, juicy red flesh.[9]
- Flavor Queen: large light-green to yellow, very juicy.[9]
- Red Ray: medium, bright red with dense, sweet orange flesh.[9]
Apriums
[edit | edit source]Floyd Zaiger created the aprium, a hybrid cross between apricots and plums but more similar to apricots.[10] Apriums are complex plum-apricot hybrids that show primarily apricot traits and flavor.[2] Apriums resemble apricots on the outside. The flesh is usually dense and notable for its sweet taste due to a high content of fructose and other sugars.[7] Apriums are usually only available early in the fruit season, like apricots and unlike pluots, which include some very late-ripening varieties. Aprium trees grow quickly and are smaller compared to other common home-grown apricots. The fruit is gold, with red coloration. Semi-mature fruit is hard and does not ripen if picked before completely mature.[citation needed]
See also
[edit | edit source]- Nectaplum
- Peacotum
- Prunus brigantina, an apricot species with smooth-skinned fruit
- Prunus dasycarpa, an apricot hybrid known as "black apricot" or "purple apricot"
References
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External links
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The dictionary definition of plumcot at Wiktionary- The dictionary definition of pluot at Wiktionary
- The dictionary definition of aprium at Wiktionary
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