TAMARILLO, Solanum betaceum

Tree Tomato is a fast growing small tree that bears heavy crops of red or yellow sub-acid succulent fruit. The fruit has many uses apart from being eaten fresh, such as being cooked in any way tomatoes would be cooked. Tamarillo chutney and jam is a taste treat. The yellow fruiting variety is usually milder and sweeter with slightly smaller fruit.
Tamarillos are very quick growing and will crop in 18mths reaching a height of 2-3 meters. They require well drained soil and protection from wind and frost.

Tamarillo - Red

Also known as the Tree Tomato is a very quick growing small tree that bears heavy crops of red sub-acid succulent fruit. Prefers a sheltered spot with well drained soil

Tamarillo - Grafted

Tree Tomato is a fast growing small tree that bears heavy crops of red or yellow sub-acid succulent fruit. The yellow fruiting variety is usually milder and sweeter with slightly smaller fruit. Grafted onto Devils Fig to increase the logevity and bring on earlier fruiting.

175mm | $17.90 AU | Seeking Propagation Material |

Tamarillo - Orange

Fast growing small tree that bears heavy crops of sub-acid succulent fruit. This orange selection is usually milder and sweeter than the red tamarillo. Prefers well drained soil in a sheltered position. Also known as Tree Tomatoe.

140mm | $9.90 AU | Seeking Propagation Material |

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Tamarillo - Red

Keep them well staked or protected from winds, fast growing plant that crops well, easy plant to do cuttings from in spring,only a short lived plant(bout 4 years) fertilise well and you will have more fruit than you can handle. Yummy. | Tay Brownlie - Milton, NSW 25-May-2006

Tamarillo

I have the YELLOW fruiting now after losing 2 red.Reason being rotting of trunk at ground level due to my wife growing chillies/capsicum etc and thus the TAMARILlO being over watered & rotting off. They could not care less if they never received water fr | Bazza Smith - Bundaberg Qld, QLD 26-Oct-2006

Tamarillo - Red

They live for many years; our current one had a bad start - transplantings etc. Now we give it regular doses of liquified manure, PLENTY of water and it is full of fruit! | Janet Blackmore - Northfield, SA 19-Dec-2006

Tamarillo - Red

Cut in half length ways and place on barbeque after cooking your meat.leave on hot plate till skin turns soft ,take off &scoop flesh out with asmall spoon. | Reg Grady - Nowra , N.S.W 15-Jan-2007

Tamarillo

In NZ tamarillos are generally treated as a fruit, rather than a vegetable, and are delicious eaten raw (scooped out and left for a few hours to juice up with sugar) or stewed with a little sugar. | Betty Johnston - Sydney, NSW 12-Apr-2007

Tamarillo - Orange

I have a tamarillo growing in cold Armidale. It is north facing and sheltered from frost by overhanging bamboo. Major crop (a big one) only after 3yrs. Leaves and tender shoots are killed by frost, but regenerate to provide a nice sweet crop in May-July. | Steve Walkden-brown - Armidale, NSW 10-Jun-2007

Tamarillo

Tamarillos for breakie with bacon & eggs,snags & hash browns are to die for.....Falls out of the skin when cooked on the BBQ | Chris Naismith - Gold Coast, QLD 25-Oct-2007

Tamarillo

Red Boil till scin comes off. Eaten with ice cream | Roy Welham - Almaden Nth Qld, QLD 20-Aug-2008

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