Flowers are similar in morphology to peach, plum, and cherry. The fruit is a drupe similar to a small peach, 1.5-2.5 cm (0.6-1.0 in) diameter (larger in some modern cultivars), from yellow to orange, often tinged red on the side most exposed to the sun.
Apricot trees grow best in areas that don't get a spring frost since they flower early in the spring and an early frost destroys their flowers.
Dried apricots are a type of traditional dried fruit.
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