It is golden orange and scarlet red outside and rich yellow inside. Floyd Zaiger is also the man behind a huge success of interspecific hybrids of plums and apricots called pluots (plumcots) and apriums which nowadays seem to gain more and more popularity.ĪMBER ® dwarf peach produces mid-sized fruit of excellent flavour and beautiful skin. As of 2020 they patented 446 fruit tree varieties. He set up Zaiger’s Genetics in Modesto, California, USA, where plants are bred using hand pollination rather than using DNA manipulation. They are usually self-fertile and grafted on slow-growing rootstocks that are happy to live in a large pot and don’t need to spread its roots in the ground.ĪMBER ® is a dwarf peach tree developed by Chris “Floyd” Zaiger (1926-2020) who devoted all his adult life to breeding stone fruit. Dwarf fruit trees are sought-after plants mostly among those who don’t have a garden, just a patio or a balcony, or their garden is too small to accommodate a large fruit tree.
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