Houghton Fruit Trees (Popular)
Houghton Fruit Trees and the most popular plants Australians buy for mail order. With fruit trees you should consider climate suitability.
Dwarf Persimmon - Fuyu (NA)
$69.00 ($69.00-$79.00 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.
Vanilla Vine
$39.00 ($24.00-$39.00 choose a size)
The fermented pod of this climbing orchid is harvested from the Vanilla Vine or orchid, an aromatic sweet scents used to flavour cakes, and perfumes. Must be hand pollinated. The only insect capable of pollinating the blossom is the Melipona, a bee (see video) , native only to Mexico so all plants must be hand pollinated within 12 hours of the flower opening. The pods take nine month to develop.
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Papaya - Red RB4 Hybrid
$14.75 ($4.90-$19.75 choose a size)
Red-pink fleshed variety. These hybrid trees are bisexual so self-fruitful, however, plant two or more to increase yield. Papaya is a highly nutritious food source that is delicious, quick and easy to grow. Plant in a warm, sunny location and regularly feed. Good drainage is required as papaya do not like wet feet. Plant in raised beds, on a slope or directly in free draining soil. Protect your fruits from birds and bats when they are close to ripening. They can be picked a little early to ripen off the tree. Enjoy growing your awesome Papayas!
Special Offer: Buy 2+ @$14.75ea usually:$19.75ea
Papaya - Broad Leaf
$19.75 ($19.75-$19.75 choose a size)
Large, elongated red fruit with great flavour on a tree with large striking foliage. Needs a warm frost free climate to thrive. Pollination is required so best to have 3 to ensure at least one female
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Papaya - Sunrise Solo
$14.90 ($4.90-$19.75 choose a size)
Sunrise Solo is a pink fleshed bisexual papaya. It is the most commonly grown papaya worldwide. The fruit is small, pear shaped with a very sweet, musky flavour. They grow true to type and you can use the seeds to re grow them, as long as they are not cross pollinated with other papayas.
Special Offer: Buy 2+ @$14.90ea usually:$19.75ea
