The bounty of human creativity and trees continues. There is a great story that was on NPR this morning about a farm stand in Santa Monica, CA that specializes in stone fruits. J. Fitzgerald Kelly, the proprietor of the stand, grows over 190 different kinds of stone fruit, though they're not all in season at the same time.
Stone fruits are also known as drupes. These are fruits that typically grow on trees, which have an outer fleshy part that surrounds a shell (the pit or stone)that contains a seed inside.
Freestone refers to a drupe having a free stone, meaning the stone is relatively free of the flesh, and can be removed from it with ease. While a clingstone, is used to describe fruits whose stone is rather difficult to remove.
Plums, peaches, apricots and yes even pluots and aprium all fall into these catagories.
Trees truly are amazing with what they provide us!
For more info and to hear the story first-hand go to:
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/2009/farm-foods/?startat=2
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