Mudgee farmer Bruce Davis creates new fruit

Mudgee farmer Bruce Davis creates new fruit 02/21/2010

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Retired farmer creates new fruit
A cross between a plum and peach
Fruit said to be 'very tasty'

IS it a plum? Is it a peach? It's probably a pleach as it's a morph of the two tasty stone fruits.

Whatever it is, it's a love child of the two, accidentally created by a retired NSW farmer.

Bruce Davis from Mudgee in the state's central west couldn't believe it when he discovered he had grown a cross between a peach and a plum.

The fruit looks like a peach from the outside, but resembles a red plum when bitten into.

The unusual fruit is believed to be the first of its kind ever grown in the state.

Mr Davis grows peach and blood plum trees alongside each other and believes the peach/plum tree may have grown from compost that contained plum seeds.

"It's a really interesting piece of fruit and it's very tasty,'' Mr Davis said.

A cross between a plum and an apricot, known as a pluot, has been grown in the past, but a peach and a plum is a new combination for NSW, Primary Industries Minister Steve Whan said.

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