The Canistel is a slender and erect tree with cream coloured fragrant flowers. The fruit is round to oval and matures to a yellow-orange colour hence its other common name of 'egg fruit'. The yellow flesh has a sweet earthy flavour and a meaty texture similar to a boiled egg. The fruit is delicious eaten fresh out of hand with a little salt and lemon juice added. Canistels are often added to sweet custards or made into delicious eggnog-like milk shakes by blending with milk. The fruits are very rich, the flesh can be dried and ground into a powder which is than used as a flavouring for sweet desserts.
A slender and erect tree with cream coloured fragrant flowers. The fruit is round to oval and matures to a yellow-orange colour. The yellow flesh has a sweet earthy flavour and a meaty texture similar to a boiled egg. Seedling selection cropping in 4 years.
It is a selection from Northern Qld. The sweet fruit is of excellent quality.
175mm | $29.00 AU | In Production | 
This selection is from northern NSW, very sweet moist texture with superior flavour. The yellow flesh of the Canistel has a sweet earthy flavour and a similar texture to the yoke of a boiled egg.
175mm | $34.00 AU | Seeking Propagation Material |
Aurea produces a large elongated fruit of excellent quality. The fruit is delicious eaten fresh or with a little salt and lemon juice added. Canistels are often added to sweet custards or made into delicious eggnog-like milk shakes.
175mm | $29.00 AU | Seeking Propagation Material |
Heavy bearing cold hardy selection that bears medium sized fruit. Very sweet, mealy textured fruit.
175mm | $29.00 AU | Seeking Propagation Material |
| Height | Frost tol. | Pollination req'd | Evergreen/Deciduous | Harvest period |
| 8 | Medium | No | Evergreen | March - July |
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Aurea may not like the cold in Toowoomba, 27S, 600m altitude. Two dead in two winters, But I'm trying different cultivars and I'll let you all know if one ever lives. | Mal - Toowoomba, QLD 09-Mar-2007
Emma also died in the third winter, but it was the hardest frost in 30 years | Mal - Toowoomba, QLD 08-Aug-2007
Try the seedling as seedlings are tougher,maybe, for Toowoomba , Al. | R O L F - Bankstown Sydney, NSW 28-Nov-2007
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