"Floyd Zaiger with a ""Pluot"", a cross between a plum and an apricot. (the fruit is back lit with a pencil light battery stobe. Floyd Zaiger (Born 1926) is a biologist who is most noted for his work in fruit genetics. Zaiger Genetics, located in Modesto, California, USA, was founded in 1958. Zaiger has spent his life in pursuit of the perfect fruit, developing both cultivars of existing species and new hybrids such as the pluot and the aprium. Zaiger with a pluot fruit (plum & apricot) -MODEL RELEASED. 1983."