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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 poi
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