pluots

Plum-apricot offspring

Pluots are hybrid stone fruits, a cross between plums and apricots with more plum than apricot in their parentage.

The flesh is sweet and juicy, the skin smooth like a plum's.

Pluots are perfect for eating fresh or baking into tarts.

Related hybrids include apriums (more apricot) and plumcots (roughly equal parts).

fruit

nectarine

Hairless peach variety

harvest · seasonal · produce · snack · dessert · ripening · pitted · tartness · sweetness · flavorful

hybrid

crossbreeding

Mating unlike organisms

grafting · horticulture · genetics · botany · propagation · hybridization · innovation · breeding · parentage · pollination

stonefruit

prunus

Stone fruit group

clingstone · drupe · endocarp · flesh · orchard · perennial · bloom · thinning · ripen · bruising

varieties

mottled

Having irregular color patches

  • speckledDotted with small marks
  • yellowHue between green and orange
  • purpleHue between crimson and azure

green · marbled · skin

juicy

succulent

Moist and flavorful

refreshing · pulpy · dripping · moist · flesh · bite · nectarous · quenching · syrupy · tangy

Opposites
hybrid composition

pluotsapricots

Small orange stone fruit

plums

fruit type

pluotsheirloom varieties

Traditional, non-hybrid plant strains

nectarines · peaches · cherries

Family

plum, plums, apricot, apricots

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G