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 ...

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 ...

I’ve been spending the past week in the Bay Area, and last Saturday I finally got the chance to go to Berkeley’s downtown farmers market. It was fun to see new (for me) vendors selling great bread, ...

Peaches and plums are both known as "stone fruits" – and both are members of the Prunus genus. A stone fruit is a fruit that has a large pit, or "stone" in its center, according to the website ...

Unraveling the genetic underpinnings of stone fruits, a pivotal study explores the genomic landscape of apricot, peach, plum, and mei. It uncovers the signatures of selection pressures driving their ...

If you’ve got a plum, cherry, peach or apricot tree in your garden, don’t be tempted to prune it this month – cutting back stone fruit varieties in winter can spell disaster for the trees. Even though ...