It's a name game with hybrid fruits

It used to be that a peach was a peach and a plum was a plum, and that was it. Now, however, breeders are coming up with complex hybrids between species, such as fruits that are a combination of peaches, apricots and plums, and cherries or nectarines and plums.

By David Karp, Special to the Los Angeles Times

July 22, 2010