March Fruit Trees (Popular)
March Fruit Trees and the most popular plants Australians buy for mail order. With fruit trees you should consider climate suitability.
Mango - Brooks Late
$69.00
Rich, sweet, aromatic flavour and fibreless texture. Large, ovate shaped fruit with a green/yellow skin colour, ripening to red/purple blush. Fruit weigh between 300 - 800 gms and sets regularly and heavy and can be consumed both as green and ripe fruit. One of the latest ripening varieties, perfect to grow for extended harvest through to the end of summer. Tree growth is compact and can be a manageable tree for backyards with pruning
Avocado - Hass (A)
$54.00 ($54.00-$79.00 choose a size)
Most popular variety due to both its superior taste and excellent keeping qualities. Medium sized, pear-shaped fruit has an excellent creamy, flesh. The leathery rough dark-purple skin turns to black when ripe. H Aug-Dec. Hass is an A type variety and for good fruit set a B type variety is needed for cross pollination. Suggested varieties to grow alongside a Hass are Shepard, Sharwill, Fuerte, Bacon (if you're in a cooler climate)and Linda. Happy fresh avocado smashing.
Dwarf Avocado - Shepard (B)
$79.00 ($54.00-$79.00 choose a size)
A small to medium pear-shaped fruit with thick, green skin that peels easily. The fruit has an excellent flavour, medium oil content and does not turn brown when cut. H Feb/March High yielding. It displays good resistance to frost and anthracnose. While not truly dwarf, this tree can be described as reliably smaller than others due to the spreading habit and a size of roughly 4x4 m which make it a more manageable companion in small yards.
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Wasabi - Mazuma
$25.00 ($25.00-$29.00 choose a size)
Extremely strong pungency that is akin to hot mustard, wasabi produces vapours that stimulate the nasal passages more than the tongue. Generally used as a sauce that makes sushi or other foods more flavourful by adding spice. Use the stem sparingly and finely grated. Grows naturally along stream beds in cool mountain rivers valleys of Japan. Challenging to grow in Australia. Requires cool, moist, shaded conditions to thrive. It takes about 18 month - 2 years for plants to mature, in the meantime use the leaves and the leaf stems in salads, curries and pickled accompaniments.
Buy 1+ @$25.00ea usually:$29.00ea
Pepino - Kendall Gold
$19.90 ($18.75-$19.90 choose a size)
Small bush rarely above 1 m tall with yellow fruit stripped purple up to 10cm. Flavour is like a juicy rock melon. Only pick fragrant, slightly soft fruit which are ripe.
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