Howlong Fruit Trees (Popular)
Howlong Fruit Trees and the most popular plants Australians buy for mail order. With fruit trees you should consider climate suitability.
Nectarine - Fantasia
$49.00
The large yellow fleshed fruits have excellent flavour. The skin ripens to a beautiful red with yellow tints. The freestone fruits are eaten fresh, dried or stewed.
Chestnut - Emerald Gem
$49.00 ($49.00-$84.00 choose a size)
From Emerald Lake in the Dandenong region. It is a beautiful spreading tree that is almost weeping in habit. Very prolific, tends to bear heavily which greatly influences nut size. A distinctive orange-tan coloured nut without stripes. Evidence of Asian parentage.
Longan - Haew
$79.00 ($79.00-$79.00 choose a size)
Haew is a late maturing cultivar. The high quality fruit is medium to large in size with a rather small seed. Being a late fruiting cultivar it tends to bear in alternate years. Marcotted trees will commence bearing in 2 years.
Avocado - Giant Jala PBR
$69.00 ($69.00-$99.00 choose a size)
The Jala Avocado produces supersized Australian avocados. They can grow up to four times the size of the usual sized avocados you find in the shops. This is a new release from Fleming's Nurseries Qld, and will be available to the backyard gardener. At this stage, they consider it to be a B type with a good level of self-pollination. More information on this will be available next flowering season 2025. Featured on ABC News websites along with the TV program Landline. The variety is PBR, meaning unauthorised propagation is not allowed.
Palm - Peach
$69.00
This attractive, fast growing palm reaching 12-15m produces clusters of peach-like fruit, which have a sweet and nutty flavour when eaten after cooking. The palm is native to Central and South America and the fruit are often sold at fruit markets and is the primary source of sustainable palm hearts for the canned goods market. Cooking the fruit is essential to remove the irritating Calcium oxalate crystals present in the raw fruit. Seedlings are grown from a 'thornless' parent but some seedlings may have some thorns that will need managing
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