Keilor North Fruit Trees (Popular)
Keilor North Fruit Trees and the most popular plants Australians buy for mail order. With fruit trees you should consider climate suitability.
Dwarf Persimmon - Fuyu (NA)
$79.00 ($79.00-$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.
Loquat - Nagasakiwase
$49.00 ($49.00-$79.00 choose a size)
The best Japanese variety so far, it has deep orange flesh, high flesh/seed ratio and very sweet flavour. Earliest variety to ripen. Thinning fruit will enhance fruit size. The Nagasakiwase often has 2 crops a year in the subtropics. The first crop in April / May then again in August. We have found by cincturing in summer, the August crop has a much larger crop and better fruit size.
Lime - Sweet
$46.95
Heavy bearing tree producing medium sized juicy, seedless fruit. Fruit will turn yellow and lose flavour at full maturity. Grows to approx 3 to 4 metres in height. Ideal for cooking and drinks. Harvest while still Green for the best flavour. Excellent in drinks.
Wood Apple
$34.90 ($19.75-$34.90 choose a size)
A large tree with long leaves, a hard berry fruit and an inner sticky brown pulp. Though the rind of the wood apple fruit is so hard that it has to be cracked with a hammer, the sticky pulp is edible and used to make syrups, drinks, jelly, and jams. Other useful parts of the plant are the roots, fruits, and leaves of this tree that are used for medicinal purposes. Wood apple fruit can be eaten plain or made into jams and sweets. In Indonesia, wood apple is mixed with honey and eaten for breakfast. In Thailand, they eat the leaves in salads while in India the pulp is used in savory chutneys.
Sacred Fig
$19.75 ($4.90-$49.00 choose a size)
Considered sacred by followers of Hinduism, and Buddhism, this tree is all about enlightenment, wisdom and the peaceful road of life and is a place to meditate. The sacred fig is a large strangler fig with extensive aerial roots. Thrives in hot, humid climates, it prefers full sun and well drained soil. It can also be grown as an attractive pot plant or bonsai.
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