The Plumcot is round, large as an apricot and delicious when taken straight off the tree for fresh eating in early June as it ripens. Plumcot apricot fruit always tastes best when eaten straight from the tree. Whether you buy a large basket of plumcots to eat fresh, or whether you grow your own orchard of plumcots, you and your family will be delighted during the Summer harvest season. The plumcot is salt water tolerant and apricots have flourished for centuries in countries that border the Mediterranean sea. Luther Burbank in the 1920's successfully crossed the plum with the apricot to form the hybrid, "plumcot".