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Floyd Zaiger created the aprium, a hybrid cross between apricots and plums but more similar to apricots. [9] 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 ...
Peacotums. A peacotum is a peach/apricot/plum hybrid developed by Zaiger's Genetics, Inc., a company that develops novel fruit through hybridization. [1] Peacotum is trademarked by Dave Wilson Nursery Inc. [2] An application to trademark the name nectacotum in the United States for varieties derived from nectarine-type peaches was made in 2004 but later abandoned.
Hybridisors have created what is known as a "black apricot" or "purple apricot", (Prunus dasycarpa), a hybrid of an apricot and the cherry plum (Prunus cerasifera). Other apricot–plum hybrids are variously called plumcots, apriplums, pluots, or apriums .
Prunus simonii, called apricot plum and Simon plum, is a tree in the genus Prunus. It was first described by Elie-Abel Carrière in 1872 and is native to Hebei province, China. [1] The species is not known in a truly wild state. [2] It has been important for breeding commercial plum cultivars from crosses with other species of the genus Prunus.
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. He developed a number of cultivars from the hybrid, [2] [3] of which 'Climax' was particularly notable for its importance to the fruit shipping industry of California. [4]
Prunus salicina – Chinese plum, Japanese plum; Prunus simonii – apricot plum; Prunus sogdiana [2] – Sogdian plum; Prunus spinosa – sloe; Prunus tadzhikistanica – Tajik plum; Prunus ursina [2] – bear's plum; Prunus ussuriensis [2] – Manchurian plum; Prunus vachuschtii – alucha; Hybrid species (some of them are hybrids with ...
These hybrid fruits are the latest summer food craze. They are a mix between a cucumber and a watermelon. This cucumber-watermelon hybrid is the cutest fruit of the summer
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 ...