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  • From: Anton Callaway <marillen@earthlink.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Will apricot and sand cherry (Prunus pumila) naturally form a plumcot hybrid?
  • Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 07:48:52 -0500 (GMT-05:00)

Steve,

Burbank may have crossed apricot & P. pumila (I don't know either way), but
the typical plumcot is apricot X P. salicina ("Asian plum")and Burbank
certainly made that cross with several cultivars.

Anton
Zone 8


-----Original Message-----
>From: Steven Covacci <filtertitle@aol.com>
>Sent: Jan 4, 2011 3:15 AM
>To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: [NAFEX] Will apricot and sand cherry (Prunus pumila) naturally form
>a plumcot hybrid?
>
>
>Hi,
>
>
>Plumcot is the result of the interspecific hybridization of apricot (Prunus
>armeniaca) and the genetically compatible sand cherry (Prunus pumila spp.
>besseyi - western sand cherry). Burbank was one who was successful in
>forming a "plumcot". Their bloom periods seem to match up, in the Atlantic
>northeast.
>
>
>Asian plums will freely hybridize with US-native plums, open-pollinated, as
>their chromosomal counts are equivalent. I think apricot (will they?) and
>Asian plums will cross. So, will apricot freely hybridize with native
>plums, including and/OR specifically sand "cherry" (a plum)?
>
>
>Thanks,
>Steve
>New Jersey; USDA zone 6b/7a
>





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