A Pluot® is actually a plum/apricot hybrid and are seriously tasty little fruits. They won’t be ursurping the plum in my fruit landscape, but will most likely sidle up and take a role in the wings. They are crisper than a plum (yay!), but the skin isn’t quite as tart (boo!). They have a more complex (yay!) and slightly sweeter taste (boo?) than a plum, owing to it’s apricot heritage. The skin is a little tougher, too, which is nice. I would like to know what a dried pluot would tasty like, as I don’t care for prunes, but I adore dried apricots.

It should be pointed out that the pluot (I haven’t said so, but I think it’s a terrible name, in a way) is not genetically modified, but is actually a hybridization of the two fruits. Therefore, it does not conflict with Mendicino County’s Measure H, which bans the “propagation, cultivation, raising and growing of genetically modified organisms in Mendocino County”. Huzzah!