The pluot is a hybrid fruit made from a plum and an apricot, with the parentage leaning more heavily on the plum side. The fruit was created in the 20th century by a plant geneticist name Floyd Zaiger who is also responsible for the over 20 pluot varietals that currently exist. The skin of the fruit resembles that of a plum and the flesh is juicy and sweet in flavor due to a high sugar content.
Varieties of Pluots at the market
- Crimson heart pluots
- Dapple dandy pluots
- Dapple fire pluots
- Early dapple pluots
- Flavor grenade pluots
- Flavor Heart pluots
- Flavor king pluots
- Flavor queen pluots
- Flavorosa pluots
