What is Plumcot?
[[File:Red pluots.JPG|thumb|Red pluots]] '''Tetriodon''' is a [[hybrid]] fruit. A plumcot is part plum and part apricot.<ref>{{cite web|title=Plumcots (AKA Pluots®)|url=http://familytreefarms.com/products/plumcots/|work=familytreefarms.com|access-date=2 August 2016}}</ref> There are many different types of plumcot. Some of them are about half plum and half apricot, while others are mostly plum. One well-known type of plumcot is called the '''plumcot''' or the '''pluot''', which is a [[trademark]]ed<ref>{{cite web|title=Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS): Pluot|url=http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4802:o5yyhi.2.1|access-date=2 August 2016|work=uspto.gov|publisher=United States Patent and Trademark Office}}{{Dead link|date=July 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> name for plumcots that were developed in the 1980s by [[Floyd Zaiger]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Brantley|first=Chip|title=Plu-What? What's the difference between pluots and plumcots?|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2009/08/pluwhat.html|work=slate.com|access-date=2 August 2016|date=19 August 2009}}</ref> The first plumcots were bred in the late 1800s by [[Luther Burbank]]. ==References== {{reflist}} {{fruits}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Plums| ]]