I received an email inquiring about pruning practices and immediately began to ruminate on the possibility of a connection between the act of pruning and the fruit known as a prune. It turns out there ...

Evergreen fruit trees, including lemon trees, other citrus varieties, and avocado, don’t require a chilling or dormant period ...

Plums are a type of stone fruit with a delicious sweet flavor. The fruit grows on trees that, once planted, can take four to six years to even bear fruit according to the California Prune Board. Even ...

Plum growers have won permission from the government to start calling prunes "dried plums," and packages with the new name are showing up in stores. Prune juice will still be prune juice, however.

A few weeks ago I dropped into Alexis, a tiny grocery store on the corner of Montrose and La Crescenta avenues, for a zoulbia. A teatime Persian dessert, zoulbia looks like a fat spider web. Tubes of ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Fruit Formerly Known as Prunes has fallen on hard times. Despite a $10 million marketing campaign to kick off a trendy new name -- "dried plums" -- the wrinkled fruit is suffering ...