Skipton Fruit Trees (Popular)
Skipton Fruit Trees and the most popular plants Australians buy for mail order. With fruit trees you should consider climate suitability.
Pear - Beurre Bosc
$59.00 ($59.00-$79.00 choose a size)
Large fruit, russet yellow-brown colour. Flesh is yellowish-white and juicy with a coarse texture and slightly granular. Flavour is very good and sweet. Full flavour develops after three to four weeks under refrigeration. Mid-season maturity. Recommended by Flemings Nursery - Pick of the CropPollinator Williams, nijiseiki
Quince - Smyrna
$46.95 ($46.95-$46.95 choose a size)
The quince is valued for its high pectin content and is used frequently in jams, jellies and cosmetics. This fruit is one of the few that must be cooked as it is too tart, hard and unpalatable to eat raw. The quince tree has been cultivated by people for thousands of years. Originating from Turkey and Iran this is a fruit with a fascinating history, it features strongly in the history and mythology of both Greece and Rome. Trees are very long lived and have a beautiful, gnarly twisted appearance, they are exceptionally hardy and can withstand both periods of dry and severe cold. Smyrna - A Turkish variety with extremely large fruit, light yellow flesh and bright yellow skin. It can be grown as an attractive tree (or multi-stemmed shrub) and has dark green foliage and a very showy bloom
Dwarf Mandarin - Daisy
$46.95
Recently introduced variety from Californian that is showing promise over a large range of climatic regions. Large fruit size, well coloured fruit and relatively seedless. Flying Dragon modifies the top growth making this a dwarf plant that is ideal to use planted out or as a pot specimen. Trees will grow to about half the normal citrus size. Flying Dragon rootstock also adds cold hardiness and grows well in heavier soils, like Trifoliata rootstock.
Grapefruit - Honneffs Surprise
$34.00
An Orange-Grapefruit cross with heavy crops of dark orange skinned fruits. The fruit is sweeter than a regular grapefruit, it has a thin rind, few seeds and is very juicy.
Grapefruit - Star Ruby
$40.95
Has one of the best internal coloured fruit of the five red fleshed varieties. Medium sized seedless fruit, smooth thin peel with dark red flesh, excellent quality. Harder to grow than other varieties.
