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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.
Pluots and plumcots are two popular variations. These summer delicacies are combinations of plums and apricots in varying proportions. According to Liz Sgroi in the video above, these hybrids take ...
The WordSpy ref I found suggests that a "plumcot" is half-and-half, and the 1/4 3/4 hybrids are 'pluots' and 'apriums'. If this is correct and they're different, they shouldn't be merged. --Sgorton 18:46, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
Prunus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs from the family Rosaceae, which includes plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots and almonds (collectively stonefruit).The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, [4] being native to the temperate regions of North America, the neotropics of South America, and temperate and tropical regions of Eurasia and Africa, [5] There are about 340 ...
An apricot (US: / ˈ æ p r ɪ k ɒ t / ⓘ, UK: / ˈ eɪ p r ɪ k ɒ t / ⓘ) is a fruit, or the tree that bears the fruit, of several species in the genus Prunus.. Usually an apricot is from the species P. armeniaca, but the fruits of the other species in Prunus sect. Armeniaca are also called apricots. [1]
Prunus mume is a Chinese tree species classified in the Armeniaca section of the genus Prunus subgenus Prunus.Its common names include Chinese plum, [2] [3] [4] Japanese plum, [5] and Japanese apricot.
'Climax' is a Prunus cultivar, considered to be a plum. It was introduced in 1899 by plant breeder Luther Burbank.. Burbank devoted a lot of work to hybridizing two plum species, the apricot plum or Simon plum Prunus simonii and the Japanese plum Prunus salicina.
Greengage fruit are identified by their round-oval shape and smooth-textured, pale green flesh; they are on average smaller than round plums but larger than mirabelle plums—usually between 2 and 4 centimetres (1 and 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) diameter.