Butler Fruit Trees (Popular)
Most popular is what other people in your area are buying. Remember they may be experimenting and it may not mean they are suitable for this climate. Daleys only sends to WA a few times per year. Please check WA Mail Order Schedule
Poinciana
$18.75 ($18.75-$59.00 choose a size)
Large striking tree with vibrant red flowers in Summer. Regarded as on of the best shade trees in the subtropics. Broad spreading quick growing tree. Protect from frost when young.
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Orange - Arnold Blood
$39.00 ($39.00-$79.00 choose a size)
Sweet variety requiring hot dry conditions for best colour. Blood oranges have their own distinctive flavour reminiscent of strawberries. This is the best colouring variety in the sub tropics. New PVR blood orange.
Mandarin - Daisy
$39.00
Recently introduced variety from Californian that is showing promise over a large range of climatic regions. Large fruit size, Dark orange coloured fruit and it is relatively seedless. It has a sweet, complex flavour that will have you going back for more. It is a cross between a Fremont (which is absolutely delicious) and a clementine variety. It peels and breaks apart easily making it quicker to go from the tree to your mouth or tree to fruit platter or lunch box. Enjoy growing and eating the Daisy mandarin- we sure do.
Canistel - Ross Sapote
$27.00
A seedling selection that is similar to a canistel but the fruit tends to be moister and less mealy than a canistel. They also tend to split open at the top like a flower opening when they fruits are fully ripe. The tree is slow growing and easy to control, once established they are drought tolerant. Called Eggfruit due in part to the texture of the pulp being similar to the yolk of a hard-boiled egg but the flesh is sweet like caramel.
Yacon - Apple of the Earth
$19.75 ($3.95-$19.75 choose a size)
Also known as the 'Earth Apple' this is one of the ancient crops of the Inca's. This relative of the sunflower is popular to the people of Columbia, Ecuador and Argentina. The plant produces large tubers similar in appearance to sweet potatoes, but they have a much sweeter taste and crunchy flesh. The tubers can be eaten raw as a refreshing treat on their own, finely sliced and mixed into salads,boiled or baked, fried as chips or prepared as a pickle. There is also commercial interest as a flavouring for yoghurt. They are sweet, juicy and almost calorie free. The main stem can also be used like celery. The texture and flavour have been described as a cross between a fresh apple and watermelon. The plants are vigorous, herbaceous, perennial and extremely hardy tolerating hot summers, drought and poor soils. The foliage of the plant dies back in the winter after flowering at which time the tubers are harvested carefully to avoid damage to the tubers. They tend to continue sweetening if left in a cool dry and dark place for a week or two before consumption. The reddish rhizomes are then replanted for the next season.
