The Pluot

If you have never had the chance to have a plout, and a few differing flavors of pluots.. I recommend you do it soon.  Fresh and Easy has had 4 of the flavors below.  Dustin and I will rave to you about the Mango Tango.  Check out www.kingsburgorchards.com  Pluot Mecca!

 

Pluot

A pluot (pronounced /ˈpluː.ɒt/) is a tradename for varieties of interspecific plum or Plumcot developed in the late 20th century by Floyd Zaiger. In the United States, the fruit is known by most regulatory agencies as an interspecific plum or plumcot. It is a complex cross hybrid of plum and apricot, exhibiting more plum-like traits. The pluot, like the aprium, is derived from plums, apricots and or hybrids called the plumcot.
The fruit's exterior with smooth skin closely resembles a plum's. Pluots are noted for their sweetness (due to a very high sugar content), their intense flavor, and very juicy pulp. Pluots are also rich in vitamin A.
Dinosaur egg is a trademarked name for Dapple Dandy variety.
"Pluot" is a registered trademark of Zaiger's Genetics.

 

A Raspberry Jewel pluot, before and after cutting.

 Varieties

Flavorosa pluot.

Dapple Dandy pluot.

Splash pluot on tree.

Pluot varieties include:

• Crimson Sweet: Sweet flavor, medium-sized, Crimson skin with pinkish flesh. Available in June.
• Dapple Dandy: Large size with mottled pale green to yellow, red-spotted skin, red or pink juicy flesh. Available July through August and easily shipped (due to the firm nature of the flesh).
• Early Dapple: Good flavor, medium-sized, mottled green over red skin with pink flesh. Available mid June.
• Emerald Drop: Medium to large size, green skin and yellow-orange flesh. Available from mid July to late August.
• Flavor Delight: Medium-sized, fuchsia-honey colored skin with pink flesh. Available in June.
• Flavor Fall: Large size, average flavor, Red skin with yellow flesh. Available the end of September and the first of October
• Flavor Finale: Medium to large size, purple-red skin with amber-red flesh. Exceptional complex flavor. Harvest begins in Early September and fruit is edible well into October.
• Flavor Grenade: Large size, oblong shape with red blush on green background, yellow juicy flesh. Available the end of July through August.
• Flavor Heart: very large, black with a heart shape, and yellow flesh.
• Flavor Jewel: Sweet flavor, heart shaped, red over yellow skin with yellow flesh.
• Flavor King: Fruit punch flavor, medium size, with burgundy skin and red super sweet juicy flesh. Available end of August first of September. Flesh of this is hard until fully ripe which takes time to complete.
• Flavor Prince: large round and purple, with red flesh.
• Flavor Queen: Medium to large size, very juicy flesh. Taste is very sweet and when fully ripe (golden yellow colour). Available the end of June to mid August.
• Flavor Rich: medium-sweet, large black round fruit with orange flesh.
• Flavor Royal: very sweet, medium-sized, dark purple with crimson flesh. Available end of May through first weeks of June.
• Flavor Supreme: medium or large, greenish purple skin, juicy red flesh.
• Flavorich: Large size, dark purple skin and firm, sweet, yellow-orange flesh. Harvest begins in late August/early September.
• Flavorosa: very sweet , medium-sized, flat round dark-purple fruit with red flesh. Available end of May through first weeks of June.
• Geo Pride: Medium size, red-skin and yellow flesh. Balanced acid-sugar is predominately sweet with unique plum/apricot flavor. Harvest in mid-July to early August.
• Raspberry Jewel: medium, dark red skin, brilliant red honey-sweet flesh.
• Red Ray: medium, bright red with dense, sweet orange flesh
• Splash: Small to medium sized red-orange colored fruit, with very sweet orange flesh. Available mid July.
• Sweet Treat: Super sweet with hints of thompson grape flavor, green golden skin with yellow juicy flesh. Available end of June and first of July.
• Tropical Plumana: Tropical punch flavor, medium-sized, red over greenish yellow background with yellow flesh. Available middle of June.

California pluots are sold during the summer and fall.

So get out and get your hands on one of these bad boys!  We are going into fall now, the fruit selection will be changing!!

Ash