Tropical Fruits

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For the more hot parts of Australia. These plants are going to suit you best.

Tropical Fruits

Mango - Bowen

Most common variety grown due to its excellent quality fruit. This selection is seed grown from selected quality fruit. Bowens are naturally polyembryonic hence are virtually true to type from seed. Cropping begins in 3-4years, with identical fruit quality to grafted trees.

Carambola - Kary Seedling

This star like fruit has five golden wings that reveal a star-shaped pattern when cut crosswise. The juicy transparent flesh has a citrus quality with a floral accent and is delicious eaten fresh, made into juice or into a delicious chutney. Seedling grown from the popular Kary selection, which we have found to begin cropping in 2-3 years.

Wampi

This subtropical fruit tree is native to China where the fruit is highly regarded. The yellow skinned fruit grows in grape-like clusters. The flesh is slightly acid and pleasantly aromatic. Seedling selection of the popular Guy Sam variety.

Passionfruit - Panama Red

A hybrid passionfruit that is vigorous and more tropical than the black. The large fruit has attractive red skin and crops very heavily from Autumn through to Spring.

Soursop (MT)

The fruit is heart-shaped with a rough green skin and soft fleshy spines. The fresh meaty flesh is juicy and slightly acid producing a rich creamy thirst quenching juice. Superb when fruit is pureed with 1/3 of vanilla icecream. Also known as Graviola or Guanaban. Not suitable for temperate climates.

Pitaya - Vietnam Dragon Fruit

A spectacular night flowering cactus with highly ornamental pink skin & white flesh fruit containing numerous small black seeds. Fruit can be up to 1kg with a melon like flavour. Self pollinating selection from Vietnam.

Acerola Cherry - Florida Sweet

Heavy cropper of cherry like fruit. When fully ripe the fruit is juicy and aromatic with its acid content giving it a sweet acid apple-like flavour. Fruits are extreemly high in vitamin c. Attactive pink flowers make this a very ornamental shrub.

Black Sapote - Mossman

Mossman Bears the largest of the black sapote fruit making it ideal for manufacturing. The fruit has a high pulp content and a medium flavour. Each tree can produce up to ½ ton. A very large round fruit with few seeds.

Black Sapote - Seedling

Closely related to the Persimmon this attractive glossy foliaged tree produces a fruit often called the 'Chocolate Pudding Fruit'. Delicious when eaten as a desert with cream and a touch of Rum or vanilla. Seedling selection worth growing in cooler marginal areas.

Soursop

Black Sapote - Superb

A selection originating from north Qld. As the name suggests it is a superb quality fruit. Tends to be seedless if not cross pollinated. Heavy bearing. Also called 'Chocolate Pudding Fruit'. Delicious when eaten as a desert with cream and a touch of Rum or vanilla

Jakfruit

A very handsome evergreen, reaching a height of 8 - 15 metres and bearing the worlds largest fruit. Fruits can weigh up to 20kg. Strong odour but is deliciously sweet. It can be eaten fresh or dried.

Yellow Mangosteen

This tree is a close relative of the mangosteen. Its leaves are much longer than those of the mangosteen, making the tree very decorative. It makes a yellow fruit the size of a tennis ball, which is juicy and tart, but with an interesting flavour.

Sea Grape

Attractive small spreading tree, with clusters of grape like fruit with a sweet acid flavour, eaten fresh or used to make an excellent jelly. High salt tolerance, excellent seaside plant. Male and female plants, cross pollination required.

Acai Palm (MT)

An amazing species from the Amazon basin where it occurs in fertile swampy areas of the forest. Acai is a very beautiful and productive palm, the fruits are used in drinks, ice creams, sorbets, smoothies and other tasty delights. Seed selected from a Dwarf commercial form called BRS-Para that was developed by the Brazilian government.

Rollinia - Brazilian Custard Apple

A relative of the cherimoya this plant has its origins in tropical America. The fruit about 100mm in diameter has a creamy juicy and delicious flesh, according to some tasting like lemon meringue pie. Fruits within 4 years from seed. Seed selected from extremely sweet and flavoursome fruit with firm white flesh and few seeds.

Wampi - Yeem Pay

Elongated, large yellow skinned variety. Heavy cropping and very sweet. It is also a highly valued backyard tree in southern China. The fruits are highly aromatic and have a sweet tangy flavour.

Carambola - Kembangan

This Star Fruit has bright yellow-orange fruit that is slightly elongated and pointed. The flesh is juicy and firm with few seeds. Flavour rich and sweet; excellent dessert quality.

Pawpaw - Southern Red

Southern Red Paw Paw Bisexual large orange - red fleshed Papaya with very sweet juicy flesh. Heavy cropper of elongated fruit. Seedlings have been selected from high quality self pollinated selection, so expect at least 80% bisexual plants. Performs best in a sheltered warm location.

Guava - Brazilian

Pear-shaped fruit, with yellow skin, thick, pale-yellowish flesh surrounding the white central pulp, slightly strawberry-like flavor. It contains numerous small, hard seeds and is quite firm even when fully ripe.

Guava - China Pear

White fleshed guava with exceptional flavour. Pear shaped large size. Trees are ornamental and can be pruned to size making them a versatile addition to small backyards.

Noni Fruit

Also known as Indian Mulberry. Medium sized fruit with knobby yellow-green segments. Flesh is usually milky white, juicy, with a fetid odor. The noni has a long list of scientifically documented and undocumented medicinal benefits.

Wampi - Guy Sam

Proven to be an excellent fruit, with a sweet tangy aromatic flavour. Brown skinned variety. Wampees are a handsome foliage evergreen tree grown for Summer ripe fruit with grape like flesh.

Membrillo

Fruit ellipical, green to brown; pulp is yellowy orange; 2-20 seeds/fruit. Pulp eaten roasted or boiled, mixed with rice. The tree is used as wood for construction. The leaves in decoction are used to cure intoxication by poisoned arrows.

Black Sapote - Ricks Late

This Chocolate Pudding Fruit selection from northern NSW has excellent eating qualities. Crops well into late spring to extend the harvest. Heavy cropper. Also called 'Chocolate Pudding Fruit'. Delicious when eaten as a desert with cream and a touch of Rum or vanilla

Santol

Fast growing attractive tropical fruit tree. Large yellow fruit with 3-5 seeds. The flesh is sucked off the seeds as the pulp clings firmly to them. By removing the seeds it makes a tasty jam or jelly. Popular fruit in Philippines.

Cashew Nut Tree

Very attractive tropical tree, producing beautiful rose-coloured scented flowers, followed by an edible fruit known as the cashew apple. The Nut grows at the end of this fruit. Resistant to drought.

Passionfruit - Panama Gold

A hybrid passionfruit that is vigorous and more tropical than the black. Fruit is yellow skinned, very large and very sweet pulp.

Tamarind

This large tropical tree produces a bean pod that contains a jelly-like flesh that is sweet and tart, similar to that of a dried apricot. Very popular in Asian dishes and sauces.

Passionfruit Panama Gold Select

A hybrid passionfruit that is vigorous and more tropical than the black. Fruit is yellow skinned, very large and very sweet pulp. This selection is self pollinating and a prolific producer. Grown by cuttings it is guaranteed true to type.

Passionfruit - Panama Red Pandora

A grafted selection that is vigorous and more tropical than the black. Fruit is red skinned large and sweet with a beautiful flavour.

Black Sapote - Chocolate

This variety was selected by John Piconi at Newrybar. He describes it as excellent quality and texture. Closely related to the Persimmon this attractive glossy foliaged tree produces a fruit often called the 'Chocolate Pudding Fruit'. Delicious when eaten as a desert with cream and a touch of Rum or vanilla

Star Apple - Haitian

This purple fruiting selection was made in Florida in 1952. A heavy yielding tree with well-formed and very high quality fruit. Highly ornamental tree with its attractive brownish underside leaves. Not suitable for temperate climates.

Black Sapote - Maher

A very large fruit, flattened at both ends and with few seeds. A small tree to only 4 meters, it is a prolific bearer of very high quality fruit. Closely related to the Persimmon this attractive glossy foliaged tree produces a fruit often called the 'Chocolate Pudding Fruit'. Delicious when eaten as a desert with cream and a touch of Rum or vanilla

Sapodilla - Tropical

A Singapore variety that is vigorous to 4m tall. Flavour is very sweet, slightly gritty though not unpleasant. Average weight 100 - 115gms. Sapodillas are highly prized in Asia with their sweet brown sugar cinnamon flavoured fruit that look like potatoes.

Black Sapote - Seedling (MT)

Star Gooseberry

Curious and ornamental small tree native to India and Madagascar. It is used for its medicinal values and made in to a relish or sweet preserve . Grows 2-8m preffering moist sites in the sub/tropics. Fruits in April - June.

Passionfruit - Granadilla

Large oval fruit to 30cm turning rich golden. Fruit can be cooked green like a marrow or ripened and eaten fresh. The pulp can be used with a dessert or made into sherbert. Handpollination aids fruit set.

Green Sapote

A close relative of the Mamey Sapote but more compact and cold hardier. The green fruit turns to gold when ripe and has a superior sweeter flavour to the Mamey. Seeds can be roasted and eaten. Good drainage is essential.

Guava Hawaiian

A seedling of the Hawain Supreme commercial variety. Fruit is large, yellow skinned and pink fleshed fruit. Very hardy prolific cropper. Can be eaten fresh or juiced. Can be pruned to keep compact.

Coffee arabica

Easy to process and relatively problem free the arabica thrives in frost free climates. In as little as three years the plant will be covered with white jasmine-scented flower clusters and cherry red berries.

Edible Pandanus

A low growing plant to 1m with long narrow blade like leaves and woody aerial roots. In tropical climates it can be grown as a marginal plant in dams and ponds, used as a bedding plant in tropical landscaping. However it is most widely cultivated for use in Asian cooking and basket making.
It has a nutty botanical fragrance and is most commonly used in rice dishes or tied in a bundle and cooked with food.
Also useful in flower arrangements.

Allow the plant to dry out over the winter months.

Passionfruit -Hawaiian Yellow

A more tropical variety that has a large golden skinned fruit with a strong flavour. Some selections can be quite acid. This variety is used as a rootstock for grafted selections due to its disease tolerance and vigor.

Sapodilla - Sawo Manila

Selected cultivar from Philippines. Very sweet, medium size, elliptical with light brown skin. Sapodillas are highly prized in Asia with their sweet brown sugar cinnamon flavoured fruit that look like potatoes

Miracle Fruit

Although not sweet itself this miraculous fruit, consumed fresh and allowed to coat the mouth alters your tastebuds so that everything you eat for around 30 minutes afterwards tastes sweet. Attractive potted plant.

Passionfruit - Black

An attractive and hardy black passionfruit grown from seed of the popular Misty Gem variety. The juicy orange flesh has a sweet aromatic flavour. Will tolerate light frosts.

Star Apple

Sometimes known as Caimito is native to the West Indies where it is a very popular fruit. Fruit can be purple or green skinned. When cut in half there is an attractive star pattern. The flesh is sweet and tastes very smooth and aromatic. A very attractive tropical tree, leaves green above and gold underneath. Not suitable for temperate climates.

Longan - Kohala Seedling

A close relative to the Lychee tree but much larger, stronger and more cold tolerant. The fruit is deliciously sweet. A highly ornamental tree with beautiful green leaves and clusters of yellow flowers that have a wonderful scent.

Longan - Chompoo

A Thai variety with large, high quality fruit with a faint pink tinge in the flesh. Relatively small seed. Longans are closely related to Lychees, and are highly regarded in Thailand. Generally hardier and quick growing than the lychee.

Canistel Aurea

Aurea produces a large elongated fruit of excellent quality. The fruit is delicious eaten fresh or with a little salt and lemon juice added. Canistels are often added to sweet custards or made into delicious eggnog-like milk shakes.

Passionfruit - Supersweet 96A

Grafted Pink Skinned passionfruit cropping most of the year. Large with sweet juicy pulp grafted onto Fusarium resistant rootstock. "This variety is owned by APIA and cannot be propagated without permission"

Naranjilla

This small orange fruit can be used to make a delicious juice considered a delicacy in South American parts. The tree is very attractive with large leaves that have a purple velvet effect, although some can have thorns on the leaves and stems.

Mango - Pico

Green mango selection used in traditional Asian cuisine

Acai Palm

Wax Jambu - Pink

Fast growing tree, attractive pink pear shaped fruit that are crunchy and refreshing on a hot summers day. Grows and crops well here in the subtropics as long as they are protected from frosts when young

Mango - Kasturi

A small crisp and spicy flavoured mango that is ideal for eating fresh and cooking. Vigorous grower.

Salak

Also called the snake fruit due to the beautiful pattern on the fruit, this is a tropical palm from Bali in Indonesia. The brittle thin skin is removed to reveal yellow/white flesh which has flavours reminiscent of Granny Smith apple, strawberry and pineapple. The small palm is very prickly, it has a tendancy to blow over in strong tropical storms where it reroots itself, so it can move from the place it was originally planted. Suited to tropical areas only not suitable for temperate climates.

Jakfruit - Tweed Crisp

A Orange Crisp selection made by Bob Brinsmead at Tropical fruit world. A very promising selection, the best selection he has come across as a chance seedling. Highly accepted by the Asian community.

Longan - Kohala marcotted

Large fruit with an aromatic sweet to spicy taste. Early season heavy cropping variety. Closely related to Lychees, Longans are highly valued in South east Asia. The are hardier and quicker growing.

Mamey Sapote - Pontin

Grafted selection. Underneath the Mamey’s leathery coarse brown skin is a brilliantly coloured, sweet and creamy flesh with an exotic flavour similar to sweet pumpkin pie with spice. Unripe fruits can be cooked as a vegetable.

Wax Jambu - White

A popular selection in Asia, the sweetest selection. Very similar to the Red Wax Jambu however has white waxy skin and is sweeter, but more cold sensitive.