Pluot

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 graftingorbudding.

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]

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 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]}

Plumcot varieties include:

• Flavorosa: very sweet, medium-sized, flat round dark-purple fruit with red flesh, early ripening
• Flavor Royal: very sweet, medium-sized, dark purple with crimson flesh, early ripening
• Eagle Egg: very sweet, medium-sized, dark red with crimson flesh, early mid season
• Amigo: rosy plum flavors with a hint of berry, red skin with red bleeding to yellow flesh, early mid season
• Tropical Plumana: sugary tropical punch flavor, medium-sized, red over greenish yellow background with yellow flesh, early mid season
• Crimson Sweet: sweet flavor, medium-sized, crimson skin with pinkish flesh, mid season
• Dapple Jack: medium size with mottled pale green, red-spotted skin, red juicy flesh, late mid season
• Sweet Treat: super sweet with hints of Thompson grape flavor, green, golden skin with yellow juicy flesh, late mid season
• Flavor Queen: medium to large size, very juicy flesh, very sweet, golden yellow when fully ripe, late season
• Flavor Grenade: large size, oblong shape with red blush on green background, crisp, refreshing pineapple and juicy apple flavor, late season
• Summer Punch: medium to large size, very juicy flesh, very sweet with berry and melon undertones, late season
• Tropical Sunrise: Yellow to orange color skin with red blush and orange flesh, sweet plum and apricot flavors
• Flavor King: fruit punch flavor, medium size, with burgundy skin and red, super sweet, juicy flesh, late season
• King Kong: very large size with black skin, plum-like flavor with hints of almond
• Flavor Fall: large size, average flavor, red skin with yellow flesh, very late season

Pluot varieties include:^[10]

• Dapple Dandy: large size with mottled pale green to yellow, red-spotted skin, red or pink juicy flesh, firm flesh, moderately late ripening.
  • 'Dinosaur egg' is a trademarked name for Dapple Dandy variety.
• Early Dapple: good flavor, medium-sized, mottled green over red skin with pink flesh, early ripening
• Emerald Drop: medium to large size, green skin and yellow-orange flesh, moderately late ripening
• Flavor Delight: medium-sized, fuchsia-honey colored skin with pink flesh, early ripening
• Flavor Fall: large size, average flavor, red skin with yellow flesh, late ripening
• Flavor Finale: medium to large size, purple-red skin with amber-red flesh, exceptional complex flavor, late ripening
• Flavor Grenade: large size, oblong shape with red blush on green background, yellow juicy flesh, moderately late ripening
• Flavor Heart: very large, black with a heart shape, and yellow flesh
• Flavor Jewel: sweet flavor, heart shaped, red over yellow skin with yellow flesh
• Flavor King: Fruit punch flavor, medium size, with burgundy skin and red super sweet juicy flesh, moderately late ripening, flesh is hard until fully ripe
• Flavor Prince: large round and purple, with red flesh
• Flavor Queen: medium to large size, very juicy flesh, very sweet, golden yellow when fully ripe, midseason
• Flavor Rich: medium-sweet, large black round fruit with orange flesh
• Flavor Royal: very sweet, medium-sized, dark purple with crimson flesh, very early ripening
• Flavor Supreme: medium or large, greenish purple skin, juicy red flesh
• Flavorich: large size, dark purple skin and firm, sweet, yellow-orange flesh, moderately late ripening
• Flavorosa: very sweet, medium-sized, flat, round, dark-purple fruit with red flesh, very early ripening
• Geo Pride: medium size, red-skin and yellow flesh, balanced acid-sugar, predominately sweet with unique plum/apricot flavor, moderately late ripening
• Raspberry Jewel: medium, dark red skin, brilliant red, honey-sweet flesh^[11]
• Red Ray: medium, bright red with dense, sweet orange flesh
• Splash: small to medium red-orange fruit, with very sweet orange flesh, midseason

Aprium varieties include:^[12]

• Cot-N-Candy : harvests in early to mid June, flesh is extra sweet and juicy, with a plummy aftertaste, size is 2.0 to 2.5 inches in radius on average, self-fruitful
• Flavor Delight : resembles an apricot, but with a distinctive flavor and texture all its own, pleasant, lingering aftertaste, bigger crops if pollinized by any apricot
• Tasty Rich Aprium: Very early harvests, in May. Light yellow-orange, firm, freestone. Flavor predominantly apricot, with pleasant aftertaste.

• Nectaplum
• Peacotum
• Prunus brigantina, an apricot species with smooth-skinned fruit
• Prunus dasycarpa, an apricot hybrid known as "black apricot" or "purple apricot"