New Fruit Tuesday: Plum? Apricot? Nope, its just a Pluot. Check out 5 Flavorful Pluot Recipes

Is it a Pluot?  Is it an Apricot?  If you can’t tell, it may very well be their cross-bred relative: the Pluot.

Pluots are a creation of 20th century cross-breeding, a hybrid of plums and apricots. As the result of a 50/50 hybridization, Pluots display traits of both “parents” although they tend to show more plum (approx. 70%) than apricot characteristics (30%). But percentages do fluctuate with each individual cross-breeding.

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