Plumcot

Plumcot

The Plumcot is a ½ and ½ hybrid between an apricot and a plum. [Hormel Foods, [http://www.hormel.com/kitchen/glossary.asp?id=35065 Glossary of Kitchen and Food Terms] . Retrieved August 27, 2007.] The fruit has the smell of an apricot and the flavor of a plum. The plumcot has a very smooth dark red skin and is peach colored inside. The fruit can be eaten fresh or used to make jam.

The plumcot was created by Luther Burbank by crossing an apricot and a plum.Fact|date=August 2007 Similar hybrid fruit are marketed today under the name pluot.

ee also

*Pluot
*Aprium

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  • Plumcot — Plum cot, n. [Plum + apricot.] (Hort.) A cross between the plum and apricot. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • plumcot — noun 1. hybrid produced by crossing Prunus domestica and Prunus armeniaca • Syn: ↑plumcot tree • Hypernyms: ↑fruit tree • Member Holonyms: ↑Prunus, ↑genus Prunus 2. hybrid between plum and apricot …   Useful english dictionary

  • plumcot tree — noun hybrid produced by crossing Prunus domestica and Prunus armeniaca • Syn: ↑plumcot • Hypernyms: ↑fruit tree • Member Holonyms: ↑Prunus, ↑genus Prunus • Part Meronyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • plumcot — /plum kot/, n. 1. a hybrid tree produced by crossing the apricot and the plum. 2. the fruit of this tree. [PLUM1 + (APRI)COT] * * * …   Universalium

  • plumcot — noun A hybrid fruit of plum and apricot …   Wiktionary

  • plumcot — plum·cot …   English syllables

  • plumcot — /ˈplʌmkɒt/ (say plumkot) noun a first generation hybrid of a plum and apricot, with fruit the shape of a plum and the texture and colour of an apricot, having an intense sweet flavour. Compare pluot. {plum1 + (apri)cot} …  

  • Pluot — A pluot ( plü ot ) is a tradename for a fruit developed in the late 20th century by Floyd Zaiger. [ [http://www.wordspy.com/words/pluot.asp] ] In the United States, the fruit is known by most regulatory agencies as an interspecific plum. [… …   Wikipedia

  • Aprium — An aprium, a relatively recent creation that was produced in the late 1980s by Floyd Zaiger. Apriums are complex crosses of plums and apricots, requiring several generations of crosses to create a new fruit.Comprised genetically of ¼ plum and ¾… …   Wikipedia

  • Peacotum — A peacotum is a peach/apricot/plum hybrid, said to taste similar to fruit punch, trademarked by Zaiger s Genetics, a company that develops novel fruit through deliberate hybridization. An application to trademark the name nectacotum in the USA… …   Wikipedia

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