apriums

Pluots contain more plum that apricot, but the Zaigers have also bred a series of interspecifics that are more apricot than plum, called apriums.

The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

Pluots contain more plum that apricot, but the Zaigers have also bred a series of interspecifics that are more apricot than plum, called apriums.

The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

Pluots contain more plum that apricot, but the Zaigers have also bred a series of interspecifics that are more apricot than plum, called apriums.

The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

Ben says that at first they thought the two stories were like apples and oranges but then after a while they didn't seem so much like apples and oranges but more similar -- like pluots and apriums, I guess.

Literary Death Match: Wednesday Night in Washington Square Park 2007

Floyd Zaiger, is arguably the nation's best-known fruit breeder and the inventor of pluots, nectaplums and apriums, all crosses of plums and apricots or nectarines.

Sweetness of the Season 2008

Every year, he plants fifty thousand crosses, hoping to yield a handful of successes like pluots, speckled dinosaur eggs or apriums.

The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

Every year, he plants fifty thousand crosses, hoping to yield a handful of successes like pluots, speckled dinosaur eggs or apriums.

The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

Every year, he plants fifty thousand crosses, hoping to yield a handful of successes like pluots, speckled dinosaur eggs or apriums.

The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

And when apriums - the babies of the pluots-plumcot family - hit the market, you can tuck them into a pillowy

NPR Topics: News 2010

The state also is home to at least 95% of the country's hybrid fruits, such as pluots, apriums and plumcots, says Eric Gaarde of Fruit Dynamics Inc., a Fresno lab that analyzes and evaluates tree fruit.

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