Burra (canberra) Fruit Trees (Popular)
Burra (canberra) Fruit Trees and the most popular plants Australians buy for mail order. With fruit trees you should consider climate suitability.
Jujube - Tiger Tooth Early
$124.00 ($109.00-$124.00 choose a size)
Elongated, sweet jujube fruit, best eaten fresh. Flavour resembles apple with hints of date. Ripens early mid season. Relatively minimal thorns, and smaller growth habit, fruit holds reasonably well in coolroom storage. Cross-pollinate with another variety for larger harvests. Jujubes do best in climates with long, hot summers after adequate rain early in the season and cool temperatures during dormancy. Great for inland and southern mainland Australia.
Avocado - Bacon (B)
$79.00 ($54.00-$79.00 choose a size)
Upright vigorous avocado producing pear shaped fruit of medium quality. It is regarded as the most cold hardy variety, sometimes surviving down to -5degC. It does require care to bring this subtropical tree through winter. Worth trying in urban Victoria or South Australia. H March - May
Dwarf Persimmon - Fuyu (NA)
$99.00 ($79.00-$99.00 choose a size)
Fuyu is a semi-dwarf variety, well suited to growing in small backyards and can be kept to 2m with pruning. The fruit is large and flat, orange-red in colour with a sweet, mild flavour. Great eaten crunchy but just luscious when left to go soft. Besides producing delicious fruit, Persimmons are highly ornamental with their beautiful autumn foliage. Non astringent, so can be eaten when still hard. When young, protect from hot afternoon sun, and when dormant, from wet conditions. Seedless when grown on their own. If cross pollinating with another variety they can have seeds in the flesh as shown in the display picture.
Orange - Bergamot
$64.00
The rind of this orange fruit is used in the fragrance industry. The juice can also be used as a substitute for lemon juice. The bergamot is a sour orange selection and the aromatic oil is extracted commercially in southern France
Mulberry - Hicks Fancy
$54.00 ($34.00-$54.00 choose a size)
Long red-black berries, maturing from Late November on. When fully ripe the fruit is very sweet and juicy with an unusual, slightly acid taste. This is a smaller tree with very good crops. Annual pruning is required as fruit is produced on new seasons growth.
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