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.
Dwarf Cherry - Trixzie® Royal Crimson
$89.00 ($69.00-$89.00 choose a size)
Dwarf, low chill Cherry variety that has deep red fruits and delicious cherry flavour. A self pollinating variety on super dwarfing rootstock. A useful pollinator for other low chill cherries
Dwarf Persimmon - Fuyu (NA)
$89.00 ($79.00-$89.00 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.
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.
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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