Forreston Fruit Trees (Popular)
Forreston Fruit Trees and the most popular plants Australians buy for mail order. With fruit trees you should consider climate suitability.
Hazelnut - Lambert
$44.00 ($34.00-$44.00 choose a size)
A named cultivar which produces a prolific crop of excellent quality large size nuts with a sweet flavour. Another cultivar or seedling hazelnut planted nearby is necessary for cross-pollination.
Hazelnut - Ennis
$44.00 ($34.00-$44.00 choose a size)
Jumbo Nut, high yielding. Preferred variety for all markets. It requires cross pollination with the Halls Giant. The tree is moderately vigorous and has few suckers and is an abundant cropper. The shell is moderately firm and light brown with pronounced darker-colored stripes. Nuts are large and attractive, averaging 4.2 g, and have a kernel percentage of 48%.
Hazelnut - Halls Giant
$34.00 ($34.00-$44.00 choose a size)
Halls Giant is the main pollinator for Ennis. It does not produce a big crop of nuts but it does shed large amounts of pollen late in the season. Every planting of hazelnuts should contain at least 20% pollinators.
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Passionfruit - Panama Red Pandora
$17.75 ($17.75-$19.75 choose a size)
An excellent selection that is vigorous and more tropical than the black. Fruit is red skinned, large and sweet with a superb flavour. Heavy cropping and self pollinating.
Special Offer: Buy 2+ @$17.75ea usually:$19.75ea
Bunya Nut
$4.90 ($4.90-$29.00 choose a size)
A handsome large tree for parks and gardens. This extraordinary bush food produces large edible nuts inside large cones. They are delicious roasted or pressure cooked. Then slice them and shuck the kernel and use in a wide range of recipes. The trees produce dense shade and are cold tolerant. A symmetrical pine suitable for container growing when young as they a slow growing to start. Trees take up to 15 years to produce the large cones, which ripen mid summer. No-one should stand or park under one of these at that time, as they fall from a height when ripe. These trees were and still are very important to the cultural practices of First Nations peoples of the East Coast especially southern Queensland, producing bumper harvests every 3 years, drawing peoples to the region to share.
