Aprium®

Aprium® interspecific hybrids are complex crosses of apricot and plum. Unlike plumcots, which are simple plum x apricot crosses, Aprium® interspecifics were developed by the Zaigers through intricate hybridizing, requiring several generations of crosses to create these new fruits.

Aprium® interspecifics, with their scant fuzz, resemble apricots - their apricot parentage is expressed.

The complex, intense flavor of both Pluot® and Aprium® is unique to interspecifics, much like a blend of fruit juices where the mixture is an improvement over any of the separate ingredients. Additionally, the sugar content of our interspecifics is much higher than in any standard plum or apricot--yielding fruit of incomparable sweetness.

These delicious new types of fruit will provide new opportunities for the tree fruit grower.
We introduced Flavor Delight Aprium® interspecific and Flavor Supreme and Flavor Queen Pluot® interspecifics to the home garden nursery trade in 1989. The Aprium® interspecifics described on this page, along with the new interspecific Zaiger rootstocks--Citation, Atlas and Viking--represent the most advanced fruit varietal development in the world today.

Pluot® and Aprium® are registered trademarks of Zaiger Genetics, Modesto, California.