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The apricot is cultivated in China and Central Asia. Its botanical name, Prunus armeniaca, is a reference to the land from where the ancient Greeks believed the fruit originated. |
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The apricot migrates with traders who travel the Great Silk Road. Chinese merchants very probably introduce the stone fruit to the Persians. They called it the "yellow plum" (zardaloo). |
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The Romans encounter the apricot in the first century AD. They called it praecocum, the "precocious one." |
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Henry Baker Tristram |
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Henry B Tristram visits an oasis near Damascus: The great apricot-trees were laden and bent down under strings of ripe, golden fruit.... Asses, mules, and camels in long strings carried heaped panniers of these 'golden apples'. |
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John Driver breeds seeds from Central Asian apricots, land of the Silk Road kingdoms, and plants a test plot of 10 acres. Twice as sweet as the typical fruit, CandyCot Apricots, are now shipped fully ripe in foam-padded boxes. 6373 Stoddard Rd, Modesto |
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