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The boys talked about that pluot for days afterward.

"The pluot is much higher in natural sugar content than a plum," Zaiger says.

That's when a Californian plum-apricot hybrid called the pluot hit the market.

Unpicked, the pluot can last a month without getting soft, compared to the 10 days or so common to plums.

Think of the pluot, a sweet combination of the plum and apricot.

The Pluot, a cross between a plum and an apricot, looks like a plum.

And the boys, no longer addicted to microwave popcorn, now revel in the possibilities to be found in a single pluot.

I've been getting delicious plums and pluots at the farmer's market so I used a slightly tart, beautiful pluot that was easy to slice.

To facilitate rapid multiplication, new pluot trees are now being asexually produced from cuttings of extant ones.

Zaiger is famous for developing varieties such as the pluot, and has been called "the most prolific stone fruit breeder in the modern era."

For example, there is the 'Pluot', which resulted from the cross of a plum with an apricot and the subsequent backcross to another plum.

Flavour King Flavour King is a new "pluot".

As with the pluot, a plum-apricot combo, the plum component comes on the strongest, providing vibrant color, rich juice, a tiny stone and smooth skin.

But the first bite of the brilliant red flesh of the new Raspberry Jewel Pluot from California is pure honey.

The Pluot was developed and named by Zaiger's Genetics, a plant breeder near Modesto, Calif.

Comprised genetically of one-fourth plum and three-fourths apricot, the aprium, like the pluot, is derived from another hybrid fruit called a plumcot.

With a mandoline or fine slicing blade on a food processor, use very gentle pressure to slice Pluot halves paper-thin, starting with the flat cut side.

The pluot (center) has a plum's toughened skin, the color of which is made somewhat unpredicable by hybridization; browns, yellows, greens and reds have been produced.

Pluot sounds just as strange, but none of those names capture the luscious sweetness and complexity of the new hybrid plum that seems bound to take over the market.

Apriums are usually only available in the United States during the month of June, but the pluot can be seen in produce sections as far as into the fall season.

The fruit was developed by Kingsburg Apple, the grower in the San Joaquin Valley of California that created the Dinosaur Egg pluot.

It is not a self-pollinator, so Dave Wilson staffers recommend pairing it with the nursery's 'Flavor Grenade' pluot (plum/apricot blend), which matures in the middle of August.

I wrote a rave review about Puerto Rico and basically called it the best thing since the invention of the pluot, and not a single one of you went out and bought it?

But if we had stopped there we’d have missed several notable entrees, like the perfectly cooked lamb loin in the company of spring onion, beets, new potatoes and pluot mostardo (a fruity mustard).

The nursery, says its website, is the primary licensee and propagator (in the United States) of new fruit varieties developed by Zaiger's Genetics, including the Pluot and the Aprium.

Last season a new hybrid fruit, the plumcot, was introduced in some markets.

The name plumcot was created by Luther Burbank.

He developed (but did not create) a spineless cactus (useful for cattle-feed) and the plumcot.

Comprised genetically of one-fourth plum and three-fourths apricot, the aprium, like the pluot, is derived from another hybrid fruit called a plumcot.

The original cross, 50-50 plum and apricot, was called a plumcot and can be traced back more than 100 years to the famous botanist Luther Burbank.

The plumcot tree can reproduce asexually by budding whereas the apriplum tree resulted from hybridized seedlings and cannot reproduce.

The Plumcot Arrives The plumcot is a new purplish-red fruit with the shape and velvety finish of an apricot and the softer, juicy, tart-sweet flesh of a plum.

Both names "plumcot" and "apriplum" have been used for trees derived from a plum seed parent, and are therefore equivalent.

The plumcot tree can reproduce asexually by budding whereas the apriplum tree resulted from hybridized seedlings and cannot reproduce.