Workers busy plucking apricots from a tree in an orchard owned by Dr. Kundan Singh Panwar, expert horticulturalist and consultant to Uttarakhand state government, on horticultural matters, at his Nainbagh fruit orchard in Uttarakhand state.
While the chillu is the wilder version of the apricot, this is the far sweeter and more sophisticated version that is currently being grown across the state, to turn Uttarakhand into a fruit belt!
An apricot is a fruit or the tree that bears the fruit. Usually, an apricot tree is from the tree species Prunus armeniaca.
The apricot is a small tree, 8--12 m (26--39 ft) tall, with a trunk up to 40 cm (16 in) in diameter and a dense, spreading canopy. The leaves are ovate, 5--9 cm (2.0--3.5 in) long and 4--8 cm (1.6--3.1 in) wide, with a rounded base, a pointed tip and a finely serrated margin. The flowers are 2--4.5 cm (0.8--1.8 in) in diameter, with five white to pinkish petals; they are produced singly or in pairs in early spring before the leaves.
The fruit is a drupe similar to a small peach, from yellow to orange, often tinged red on the side most exposed to the sun; its surface can be smooth (botanically described as: glabrous) or velvety with very short hairs (botanically: pubescent). The flesh is usually firm and not very juicy. Its taste can range from sweet to tart. The single seed is enclosed in a hard, stony shell, often called a "stone", with a grainy, smooth texture except for three ridges running down one side.
Source : Wikipedia
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