I happened to see this word while looking online and thought that might be a tasty fruit.They may exist.There are a couple sites I found that state they are grown.
There was a discussion http://www.cloudforest.com/cafe/forum/23332.html on the Cloud Forest forum and Axel stated there are some with a cross between a Sand Cherry(which is more like a Plum) and an Apricot.
He also gave this link http://www.arthurleej.com/p-o-m-Sep03.html ,about some trees,called the Briancon Apricot,some of which are growing near me in Seattle,that I’ll check out. Brady
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That’s interesting, but it would be more so if i could buy it. I want to look at what Z fruits are coming out.
We talked about this in one of the hybrid threads here. I said that would be one of my dream fruits. As far as I knew, there had not been any cherry crosses with anything other than plum. Unfortunately, it seems like anytime something is crossed with plum the plum traits dominate the cross. The Pluerry crosses so far are basically small plums. The verry cherry fruit I tasted last year is the best cherry cross I’ve tasted so far. Wish those trees were available.
Back to the cherrycot, it seems very plausible but you’d think if anything had been created it would’ve made it to market. Cherry sells. The DNA makeup of Cherry seems to be more complex than the other prunus species so there may be issues using cherry as the seed parent instead of the pollon parent
Sand cherry is genetically much more like a plum, it hybridizes with other plum species (e.g., myrobalan), but not with cherry species. So, a hybrid of apricot with sand cherry has any relationship to cherry only in the name. I don’t think there exists any hybrid of P. armeniaca and P. avium.
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These crosses are possible. Last year, I pollinated two Rainier Cherry flowers with Shakar Pareh Plumcot. The pollination was sucessful, but then the strong winds knocked out the fruit.
I will try these cherry x apricot crosses again this year.
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Cross-pollination does not guarantee interspecific hybridization. If the two species are too genetically distant, the resulting fruit will have sterile seeds.
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I’ve eaten several sand cherry crosses and can tell you it’s one thing growing them but can be another thing eating them. We had a plum cherry cross in my back yard growing up and the bugs and us would not touch those peach sized beautiful plums. Every animal and every person learned with that bush the hard way because they looked so delicious! The first time I bit into one I found out it tasted nothing like it looked! Blaaah!!!
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http://www.chathamapples.com/CherriesNY/1937Cherries.htm
A few avium cherry hybrids documented, (but not with apricot).
And Luther Burbank created the first plum x avium cherry hybrid as tasted and written about by a journalist.
Another avium cherry x besseyi hybrid group was written about in the late 1800’s. An amateur breeder in Minnesota finding a certain type of besseyi was receptive to avium pollen, he raised them to fruiting age.