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"  You may have heard of a pluot (a plum-apricot hybrid), a papple (a plum-apple hybrid), and the grapple (a grape-apple hybrid). Now you can add grango to the list of hybrid fruits. A grango is a cross between a grape and a mango. It&amp;#039;s outer skin is tough like a mango, its inner flesh is like a tropical grape. Britain&amp;#039;s famed grocery chain Marks &amp;amp;amp; Spencer has been working with a Spanish fruit supplier for five years to get the grango&amp;#039;s flavor just right. According to the Telegraph, &amp;quot;it can take 10 years for a new grape variety to hit the shelves.&amp;quot; The UK isn&amp;#039;t the only country that&amp;#039;s playing with produce genetics. Zaiger&amp;#039;s in Modesto, California, a &amp;quot;fruit breeder,&amp;quot; introduced a pluerry \u2014 a plum mixed with a cherry \u2014 last year. The Wall Street Journal reports the process for creating an edible mutt is painstakingly slow. &amp;quot;A new fruit makes it to market maybe once in 1,000 tries,&amp;quot; the article reported. More From Delish: 10 Summer Nectarine Desserts Fruit breeding is not unlike most conceptions. First a female parent, the &amp;quot;mother&amp;quot; tree, is chosen. The &amp;quot;male&amp;quot; pollen is brought to the &amp;quot;mother.&amp;quot; For peach and nectarine &amp;quot;mother&amp;quot; plants, workers remove the petals and pollen-producing anthers of every flower, leaving only the pistil, explains the Wall Street Journal. &amp;quot;Workers then touch each pistil, by hand, with pollen taken from the &amp;#039;father&amp;#039; tree, such as a different peach or nectarine.&amp;quot; With plums the process is slightly different as bees do the pollinating. The resulting fruit is then planted, and after some time it produces a seedling of the new variety. That seedling takes another 3 to 4 years to mature into a tree and provide fruit. More From Delish: 14 Sweet and Savory Ways to Use Summer Fruit Another hybrid currently in the works is the lemorlime. If you didn&amp;#039;t guess, that&amp;#039;s a lemon crossed with an orange and a lime. Bonus: it&amp;#039;s seedless. Are you interested in tasting a grango? How about a papple? Or perhaps you&amp;#039;re holding out for the lemorlime?  Find more great food content on Delish: Search for the perfect recipe from our homepage Find out the latest food news Get a recipe book to save your favorite dishes Sign up for our free newsletters Check us out on Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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