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The Canistel is a slender and erect tree with cream coloured fragrant flowers. The fruit is round to oval and matures to a yellow-orange colour hence its other common name of 'egg fruit'. The yellow flesh has a sweet earthy flavour and a meaty texture similar to a boiled egg. The fruit is delicious eaten fresh out of hand with a little salt and lemon juice added. Canistels are often added to sweet custards or made into delicious eggnog-like milk shakes by blending with milk. The fruits are very rich, the flesh can be dried and ground into a powder which is than used as a flavouring for sweet desserts.
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.
A slender and erect tree with cream coloured fragrant flowers. The fruit is round to oval and matures to a yellow-orange colour. The yellow flesh has a sweet earthy flavour and a meaty texture similar to a boiled egg. Seedling selection cropping in 4 years.
Comments (3)NEW | 175mm pot | $17.90 AU | In Production | 
Heavy bearing cold hardy selection that bears medium sized fruit. Very sweet, mealy textured fruit.
175mm pot | $29.00 AU | In Production |
This selection is from northern NSW, very sweet moist texture with superior flavour. The yellow flesh of the Canistel has a sweet earthy flavour and a similar texture to the yoke of a boiled egg.
Comments (2)NEW | 175mm pot | $34.00 AU | In Production |
A seedling selection from northern NSW, the fruits are elongated and narrow to a long pointed tip. The flavour is sweet and the flesh has a rich thick texture well know to canistels.
175mm pot | $29.00 AU | In Production |
A seedling selection from Tropical Fruit World, the delicious sweet fruits are small and roundish. They have a lovely rich flavour and firm dry texture.
Comments (1)NEW | 175mm pot | $29.00 AU | Seeking Propagation Material |
It is a selection from Northern Qld. The sweet fruit is of excellent quality.
175mm pot | $29.00 AU | Seeking Propagation Material |
A slender and erect tree with cream coloured fragrant flowers. The fruit is round to oval and matures to a yellow-orange colour. The yellow flesh has a sweet earthy flavour and a meaty texture similar to a boiled egg. Seedling selection cropping in 4 years.
Mega Tube | $12.90 AU | Seeking Propagation Material |
| Height | Frost tol. | Pollination req'd | Evergreen/Deciduous | Harvest period |
| 8 | Medium | No | Evergreen | March - July |
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Aurea may not like the cold in Toowoomba, 27S, 600m altitude. Two dead in two winters, But I'm trying different cultivars and I'll let you all know if one ever lives. | Mal - Toowoomba, QLD 09-Mar-2007
Emma also died in the third winter, but it was the hardest frost in 30 years | Mal - Toowoomba, QLD 08-Aug-2007
Try the seedling as seedlings are tougher,maybe, for Toowoomba , Al. | R O L F - Bankstown Sydney, NSW 28-Nov-2007
Canistels are rarely seen in NQ nurseries and trees are prized by those who have them.Moister,clean skin types are one of the most attractive and tasty of the meso-american fruits | Mike Trenerry - Cairns, QLD 04-Jun-2011
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