Portmanteau Prunus

This morning at the local farmers’ market, I picked up a couple of nectaplums, which started to become available last week. Nectaplum is a portmanteau of nectarine and plum, and the nectaplum is a hybrid of a variety of nectarine and a variety of plum. There were also pluots (pluot = plum + apricot) on … Continue reading Portmanteau Prunus