Dapple Dandy

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Dapple Dandy

The fruit skin is greenish-yellow with red spots, turning to a maroon and yellow dapple as it matures . The creamy white and red-fleshed pluot has a wonderful plum-apricot flavor. It ranks with Flavor King and Flavor Supreme Pluot® as a best-tasting fruit. The complex, intense flavor of Pluot® is unique to interspecifics, much like a blend of fruit juices where the mixture is an improvement over any of the separate ingredients. It can be pollenized by Flavor Supreme Pluot®, Santa Rosa or Burgundy Plum. Additionally, the sugar content of the interspecifics is much higher than in any standard plum or apricot--yielding fruit of incomparable sweetness. The Dapple Dandy Pluot®, (interspecific), 'Prunus pluot', fruit tree is a taste test winner. ... more info

 

Prairifire The new foliage is reddish-maroon, aging to reddish-green. The firm fruits age to a cherry red. The Prairifire is highly resistant to fireblight, scab, cedar apple rust and powdery mildew. The Prairifire™Crimson Crabapple tree, 'Malus 'Prairiefire', produces gorgeous buds followed by long-lasting, single, hot pink blossoms. The tree form is upright, spreading, and becoming eventually round at maturity.

Dapple Dandy