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Old 04-15-2009, 12:16 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Default Re: multiple fruit

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Originally Posted by sunfish View Post
I saw articles about multiple fruit when I was searching the internet. This is a peach, there is as many as four fruit growing out of one flower.
You'll come across of this more often. The most common one is two that are conjoined together in one flower. I have seen 4 on one like what you have, on peaches, apricots, nectarines, plums, pluots. But I have seen three on one only one time. I have never seen more than four. In plums the 4 fruits on one flower will usually occur with late blooms when there was not enough chilling hours for the cultivar earlier in the season, and it seems like it is trying to catch up with more fruits on one flower.
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