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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Pitch pockets.  Considered to be a result of the flesh growing at an uneven rate, causing an internal crack that fills with sap that becomes hard.  
-Lon Rombough
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On Jan 2, 2009, at 4:27 PM, Alan Haigh wrote:

Elephant Heart plums are delicious when they don't develop those hard spots near the pits, a condition that Lon identified for me but my memory has lost temporarily.  Pitch something?