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Stone fruit (also known as a drupe) is a variety of fruit that features a stone or pit in the center. The most popular varieties are in the genus prunus, which include peaches, plums and apricots.

Stone fruit are fruit with one large pit, or stone, at their center. Traditional stone fruit are apricots, cherries, nectarines, peaches and plums; novel hybrids aprium, pluot, and plumcot have been ...

According to Josh Alsberg, owner of Rubinette Produce Market in Portland, Oregon, some fruits are better left out of the ...

Don’t bite your thumb at a plum. Plums, long lauded for their laxative properties, often play second fiddle to sexier summer fruits like cherries, berries, and peaches — but dieticians say you shouldn ...

Among the wide variety of fresh fruit available throughout the summer months, many of the most popular choices belong to the stone fruit family. Stone fruits, or drupes, are categorized as fruits with ...

The produce industry, in collaboration with creative growers, has sparked a major hybridizing frenzy, increasing the diversity of the stone fruit family by leaps and bounds with striking colors and ...

While shorter supplies of cherries, peaches, nectarines and plums have led to flat or declining sales of stone fruits in recent years, these quintessential summertime favorites are poised for a ...

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Young, green apricots or peaches develop small, crusty spots that persist as the fruits mature. Fruits on the same tree may have only a few spots or they may be covered more densely. The fruit stage ...

If you ask us, the very best summertime fruit is stone fruit. There’s nothing better than biting into a freshly picked peach, a perfectly ripe plum or a handful of juicy cherries, right? Their season ...