| PLUOT | |
 | Dapple Dandy Taste test winner. Creamy white and red-fleshed freestone with wonderful plum-apricot flavor. Skin greenish-yellow with red spots, turning to a maroon and yellow dapple. August harvest. Needs to be pollenized by Flavor Supreme PluotŪ, Santa Rosa or Burgundy Plum. |
 | Flavor Grenade Elongated green fruit with a red blush. Crisp texture and explosive flavor. Taste-test winner. Hangs on the tree for 4 to 6 weeks. Pollenize with a Japanese plum. |
 | Flavor King Another taste test winner. Unique plum-apricot hybrid. Remarkable, spicy bouquet and flavor. Reddish-purple skin, sweet red flesh. Harvest mid August. Naturally small tree. Pollenized by Flavor Supreme, Santa Rosa or Late Santa Rosa. |
 | Flavor Supreme Plum-apricot hybrid with sweet, richly flavored, firm red flesh. Greenish-maroon mottled skin. June harvest time. Pollinized by Santa Rosa, Late Santa Rosa, or other PluotŪ. |
Pluots are amazing hybrid fruits that are part plum and part apricot in heritage. These fruits were originally developed in the late 20th century by Floyd Zaiger and are now grown in parts of Washington and California. Pluots have a majority of plum parentage and therefore have smooth skin like plums. Some varieties of pluots are sometimes called interspecific plums, or dinosaur eggs.
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The pluot is often confused with the aprium which is another plum and apricot hybrid with mostly apricot heritage. Like apricots, apriums have slightly fuzzy skin. Pluots and apriums are known for their sweetness and flavor; the sugar content of these fruits is much higher than that of a plum or apricot alone.
Pluots - Delicious Fruits for your Backyard Orchard