There are many ways to have Dwarf Fruit Trees suitable for turning your small backyard into a thriving orchard. Here are 4 different types of Dwarf Fruit Trees:

TRUE dwarf | Semi Dwarf | Traditional Dwarf | Bonsai in Pots

To grow dwarf trees successfully in containers all you need to do is supply a rich potting mix and re-pot regularly. Feed the trees every 6 months with a slow release fertiliser, provide plenty of sunlight, and keep the tree moist. The secret with keeping trees healthy and productive in containers is to re-pot and prune (roots and tops) at least every two years.

True Dwarfs

True dwarfs use either the rootstock eg flying dragon or the scion (cutting used for grafting onto rootstock) to dwarf or stunt the growth of a fruit tree while keeping the fruit the normal size. This creates more compact trees suitable for small Australian backyards.

Red Currants

Slightly more sour than its relative the blackcurrant, and is cultivated mainly for jams and cooked dishes. Currants require a cold winter and can be grown in areas that may be too wet and shady for other fruit.

Dwarf Fruit Tree Pack

A Dwarf pack includes 5 of our best dwarf plants selected for your location. It includes bonsai bags and fertiliser. Simply follow the Video instructions to care for your dwarf fruit trees. (Beginners pack only Please order plants separately if you know which fruit trees you want)

Mulberry - Hicks Fancy

Long red berries, maturing from Late November onwards. When fully ripe the fruit is very sweet and juicy with an unusual slightly acid taste. This is a smaller tree with very good crops. Annual pruning is required as fruit is produced on new seasons growth.

Avocado - Wurtz (A)

A small tree popular for the back yards. A moderate cropper of medium sized rich, high quality fruit. Pear-shaped with dark green skin using Guatamalan rootstock.

Apple - Pinkabelle

Compact apple tree growing to only 2m high making it ideal for containers, courtyards, decks and balconies. It has delicious fruit that ripen two weeks earlier than the Pink Lady but are similar in flavour. Grows well in all temperate climates of Australia. Partially self pollinating, planting with Granny Smith will improve fruit set.

Mulberry - Dwarf Red Shahtoot

Much more compact in growth habit than the King White. These delicious sweet fruits can reach 10cm in length. Ideal for back yards and we consider it a must have fruit tree for the back yard. Will grow in most regions of Australia. The best way to eat mulberries is fresh from the tree but if some should make it to the kitchen bench they make excellent pies, jams, wines and sauces. Multiple crops are possible by pruning directly after your first crop. (Video: Red Shahtoot)

Peach - Dwarf

This is a white fleshed freestone variety is ideally suited to the subtropics. The compact size of this variety makes it ideal for the back yards or as a potted specimen. Seed grown and will bear in 2 years. Very attractive pink blossoms

Lemon - Dwarf Meyer

This popular variety of 'lemon' is not a true lemon but likely to be a natural hybrid between a lemon and an orange. The lower acidity and reduced bitterness makes it one of the most widely grown home-garden varieties. Very hardy and prolific. The dwarf rootstock, flying dragon modifies the top growth making this a dwarf plant that is ideal to use planted out or as a pot specimen.

Peach - Dwarf Standard

White flesh peach maturing late Xmas. Very attractive pink flowers in July. Ideal for a pot specimen. Grafted on peach stock 60cm high.

Dwarf Lemonade

This sweet juicy fruit tastes like lemonade, is devoid of bitterness and can easily be eaten as a fresh fruit. The tree often has thorns and bears several heavy crops each year. The dwarf rootstock, flying dragon modifies the top growth making this a dwarf lemonade tree that is ideal to use planted out or as a pot specimen.

Grapefruit - Dwarf

Grapefruit grafted onto the flying dragon rootstock. Ideal for small areas and pots.

Dwarf Kumquat - Nagami

The small oval fruit is a brilliant deep orange colour with a highly aromatic skin. The fruit holds on the tree for a long period adding to its high ornamental value. It can be eaten whole as a fresh fruit or in the same way as other kumquats.

Lemon - Dwarf Lisbon

The dwarf rootstock, flying dragon modifies the top growth making this a dwarf plant that is ideal to use planted out or as a pot specimen.

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian

The small to medium fruit is pale lemon-yellow with smooth thin skin. The flesh is a translucent pale green, tender and juicy with a true acid lime flavour. It is best to pick the fruit green as it can suffer from rot if left to ripen on the tree.The dwarf rootstock, flying dragon modifies the top growth making this a dwarf plant that is ideal to use planted out or as a pot specimen.

Dwarf Mandarin

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 Trifoliatia rootstock.

Dwarf Orange

The dwarf rootstock, flying dragon modifies the top growth making this a dwarf plant that is ideal to use planted out or as a pot specimen.

Dwarf Tangello - Minneola

A dwarfing mandarin-grapefruit cross that is the juiciest of all citrus. Flavour is very rich and best eaten when fully ripe. The Dwarf Tangello is a heavy cropper. Citrus reticulata x paradisi

Mulberry - Dwarf Black

Pruning after fruiting allows this delicious mulberry to be kept under 3 meters, and also encourages multiple cropping throughout the summer. It is best to pick the fruit when ripe, as it doesn't ripen further off the tree. A benefit of a mulberry tree is that the fruit ripens over an extended period of time unlike other fruit that often ripens all at once. Very low chill so can be grown successfully throughout subtropical regions.

Persimmon - Ichikikijiro

Large flat fruit of excellent quality. Being a dwarf variety it is well suited to backyards but is also a good commercial variety. Mostly seedless fruit, Non astringent.

Dwarf Mango - Irwin

Dwarf tree, sweet mild flavour. Regular, moderate yield. Attractive red purple skin colour. Flesh Average wt. 380gms. Low resistance to Anthracnose and Black Spot. Mid season fruiting.

Dwarf Pumelo Nam Roi

A recently imported Pummelo from Vietnam, where it is a very popular seedless variety. Pummelos are similar to grapefruits, but larger and sweeter. Most adaptable citrus to tropical areas. The dwarf rootstock, Flying dragon modifies the top growth making this a dwarf plant that is ideal to use planted out or as a pot specimen.

Dwarf Macadamia

A dwarf Macadamia selection, growing to only about half normal size. Precocious bearer of small sized nuts. Ideal for pots or limited space.

Dwarf Calamondin

The bright orange fruit is small, loose skinned, juicy, aromatic and acidic. It remains on the tree for long periods.

Pawpaw - Cutting Grown Southern Red

A cutting grown Paw Paw is dwarfed in size and the fruit is produced low to the ground. Also suitable for growing in pots. It is possible to have fruit within 4 months rather then taking 18 months from a seedling. (Learn More) Watch Video ^NEW

Dwarf Orange - Lanes Late

Seedless variety, maturing later than all other navels, usually mid July through to October. Thin smooth rind. The dwarf rootstock, flying dragon modifies the top growth making this a dwarf plant that is ideal to use planted out or as a pot specimen.

Dwarf Mandarin - Afourer

Recently imported Tangor, with rich, sweet juicy flavour. The tree is moderate in size and vigor. Thin, smooth, orange rind that is easy to peel. The fruit is low-seeded in the absence of cross-pollination, but seedy when cross-pollinated. 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 Trifoliatia rootstock.

Dwarf Mandarin - Daisy

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 Trifoliatia rootstock.

Dwarf Mandarin - Emperor

The fruit has a pale orange skin that is inclined to be puffy. Excellent flavour however the fruit can be prone to drying if harvest is delayed. Loose skin that is very easy to peel. Most popular mid season variety. 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 Trifoliatia rootstock.

Dwarf Mandarin - Freemont

Bright reddish-orange peel, rich flavor, tender and juicy. Some seeds, heavy bearer. Where protected from cold, fruit flavor is unsurpassed. 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 Trifoliatia rootstock.

Dwarf Orange - Valencia Seedless

This seedless orange is a bud sport of the Valencia, maturing a little earlier, its a heavy cropper and good juicing variety. Attractive compact tree. The dwarf rootstock, flying dragon modifies the top growth making this a dwarf plant that is ideal to use planted out or as a pot specimen.

Dwarf Orange - Washington Navel

The oldest and most popular navel grown in Australia. Has excellent skin colour and taste, and usually produces round fruit. Is inclined to drop fruit and split in some climates. The dwarf rootstock, flying dragon modifies the top growth making this a dwarf plant that is ideal to use planted out or as a pot specimen.

Dwarf Orange - Valencia

Late variety, very juicy, holds well. The ideal variety to extend the season right through to December. Crops very well in the subtropics. The dwarf rootstock, flying dragon modifies the top growth making this a dwarf plant that is ideal to use planted out or as a pot specimen.

Dwarf Orange - Cara Cara

This variety was discovered in Venezuela in 1976. It is smaller than many other navel selections but has pink flesh similar to Star Ruby grapefruit. In South Africa it matures slightly earlier than Washington navel. Although Cara Cara has yet to be evaluated fully under Australian conditions there is considerable interest in it locally. The dwarf rootstock, flying dragon modifies the top growth making this a dwarf plant that is ideal to use planted out or as a pot specimen.

Dwarf Orange - Hamlin

A mid season all purpose orange that is used for both juicing and fresh eating. Very good flavour and vigorous growth. The dwarf rootstock, flying dragon modifies the top growth making this a dwarf plant that is ideal to use planted out or as a pot specimen.

Dwarf Mandarin - Pixie

Late maturing Californian variety, seedless good flavour. Upright growth and vigorous. 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 Trifoliatia rootstock.

Peach - Dwarf Valley Red

A hardy, compact tree growing to 2 meters at full maturity. Long thin leaves are glossy and dark green. A beautiful display of rose-pink flowers are produced in spring. A moderate crop of fruit is produced mid-late season. Size and shape is medium and round to oblong. Skin colour is orange-yellow with a deep red blush. Flesh is golden when ripe and the eating quality is very good, with a melting sweet flavour. High Chill, not suited to Warm climates

Red Currant

Dwarf Mandarin - Honey Murcott

Small to medium size flat fruit with yellow-orange skin. The fruit is smooth and easy to peel. Has some seeds. Its rich red flesh is honey sweet and juicy, with a lovely fragrance. Frost sensitive. H Aug - Sept

Sunset Dwarf Red Leaf Peach - Low Chill

High density flowering, double pink peach blossom in spring with a white flesh full sized peach, freestone. Often ripening just in time for Christmas. No pollination required. Great for warmer climates with only 300 chill hours required.

Sunset Dwarf Red Leaf Nectarine

High density flowering pink peach blossoms in spring with white flesh nectarines. Very low chill hours making it great for warmer climates. Great for pots and balconies. Will fruit by itself.

Apple Cactus

Also called the Peruvian apple, this is a night flowering, column cacti from South America. The delicuous fruits are red, pink or orange in colour, the white flesh has small black edible seeds through it. The flesh is soft, sweet and delicate in flavour, similar in taste and texture to the larger fruits of the pitayas. The plants will require free draining soil to thrive, and can be grown as a potted house plant, it is very attractive and drought tolerant.

Dwarf Mandarin - Okitsu wase

Seedless, good flavour, low acid and high TSS. Satsumas are cold hardy and form a compact growing tree. They are the earliest mandarins in the marketplace.

White Sapote - Kampong

A self pollinating selection with a compact form and thicker skinned fruits than normal. It is the preferred selection of a rare fruit grower in Bundaberg

Guava - Brazilian

Pear-shaped fruit, with yellow skin, thick, pale-yellowish flesh surrounding the white central pulp, slightly strawberry-like flavor. It contains numerous small, hard seeds and is quite firm even when fully ripe.

Guava - China Pear

Native Guava

A small dense shrub, with white/pink flowers appearing in clusters in Spring or Summer. The leaves have a sweet, fruity smell when crushed and are unusally glossy below. Fast-growing and hardy in most conditions. Tolerate light frosts.

Flying dragon rootstock

Citrus rootstock used to dwarf the variety grafted onto it. It is a mutated Trifoliatia species which has hooked thorns and much slower growing. Due to the difficulty and slowness in growing Flying Dragon, Citrus varieties grafted onto this variety are usually more expensive. It imparts the same characteristics to the scion, including cold hardiness, tolerance to root fungi and nematodes

Dwarf Coffee Tree - Catui

A dwarf coffee selection suitable for handpicking. Makes an ideal selection for growing in a pot as an ornamental. Prolific cropper of quality roasting beans.

Col de Monte Papaya

It is a "dwarf" papaya, most commonly found in cultivation in Ecuador between 600–1,700m elevation bearing small yellow fruits. There, the people like the fruit so much that they protect and nurture even wild specimens. The smooth, hard-skinned fruit has 5 faint ridges and a orange skin. Taste is highly variable. Some of its fruits are quite sweet with an attractive taste somewhat like apples. Others are astringent and barely edible, even cooked. Some of these small, fragrant fruits are eaten raw—usually mixed with other fruits. Cooked with lemon and sugar they have been likened to stewed apricots. Their firmness makes them suitable for drying and candying, and they freeze well. The young seedlings and mature leaves are cooked as greens (hence the common name "col de monte," which, translated, means "mountain cabbage"). The plant grows vigorously, but reaches only 1–3m in height. It is generally monoecious, commonly having male and female flowers together on the same inflorescence.

Creek Lilly Pilly

Attractive small tree has the ability to survive in a wide range of habitats. The small white fluffy blossum are born in early summer with mass fruitings occurring in autumn every few years. Most hardy frost tolerant lilly pilly

Pomegranate - Vietnam seedling

Seed imported from a Vietnam cultivar. Fruit large, yellow skin, pinkish flesh very sweet juicy pulp. Not necessarily true to type, but interesting to see how they fruit here.

Rosemary

A woody perennial herb with aromatic fragrant needle like leaves, native to the Mediterranean region. Rosemary is a member of the mint family.

Randia chartacea - Narrow-leaved gardenia

Gorgeous scented flowers, and ornamental fruit and flowers make this an attractive small shrub for any bush food garden. The fruit often appear in large numbers in the winter. The sweet pink pulp with a bitter after taste surrounds the hard cream coloured seeds. Slow growing.

Semi Dwarf Fruit Trees

These trees are smaller than their full sized counterparts, in the case of apples grafted onto MM102 or MM106, they are about 2/3 the size of a full grown apple tree they will grow 3-4m, A16 macadamias 4-5m

Apple - Dwarf Red Fuji

The aromatic flesh of the red fuji is tinged with a delicate honey-pineapple flavour, sweet and aromatic. The crisp, crunchy flesh is very juicy and the fruits hold well on the tree. The skin ripens from greenish yellow to a dull russett red. Pollinates with the red delicious, and pink lady. A high chill variety of apple for cooler regions.

Apple - Dwarf Tropic Sweet

A low chill, delicious and crunchy apple, very similar to the Jonathon. Bears two weeks before Anna. On a semi dwarfing rootstock, ideal for backyard plantings and container specimens.

Apple - Dwarf Tropical Anna

Delicious crunchy apples similar to their cold climate cousins, Red Delicious, but only require a low amount of chill. On a dwarf rootstock they are ideal for backyard plantings and container specimens.

Apple - Dwarf Dorsett Golden

Sweet aromatic apple with yellow fruit and a delightful pink blush and firm white flesh. Low chill requirement allows it to be grown in subtropical climates. Grafted on a dwarfing rootstock they are ideal for backyard plantings.

Apple - Dwarf Granny Smith

The Dwarf Granny Smith apple tree has a tart-tangy, crisp flavour and bright green skin. One of the best apples for eating out of hand and a very good cooking apple because of its ability to retain flavour.

Macadamia - A16

An Australian selection that shows dwarfing tendencies. High yielder, excellent nut quality. Slow growing and wind tolerant. Med - large nut and high kernal recovery.

Feijoa - Apollo

Medium to large, oval fruit. Flavor very pleasant, quality excellent. Ripens mid to late-season. The tree is upright, spreading, tall, vigorous and productive. Feijoa is also referred to as pineapple guava, which are very ornamental with attractive red flowers in spring.

Feijoa - Duffy

Australian selection from Victoria, excellent size up to 200gm. Very pleasant

non-gritty flavour. Has proven to be a good commercial variety. Feijoas are highly ornamental with beautiful red flowers followed by delicous autumn fruit.

Feijoa - Large Oval

Large Oval - A sweet fruit and as the name suggests of oval shape and good size. Good quality. Self-fertile but will produce heavier crops when cross-pollinated.

Feijoa - Mammoth

A large, round to oval fruit with a slightly wrinkled thick skin. Very good flavour and quality. Self-fertile but bears larger fruit with cross-pollination.

Feijoa - Nazematze

A large, pear shaped fruit with sweet pulp that doesn’t darken after being cut. Excellent quality fruit. Self-fertile but bears heavily if cross pollinated.

Feijoa - Triumph

Bears short oval plump fruit with a unique sharp flavour. Good flesh to seed ratio. Bears heavily if crossed with Mammoth.

Feijoa - Unique

This is a self fertile cultivar from New Zealand. It a small productive, vigorous tree growing to about 2.5m making it ideal for smaller back yards. Flesh is smooth and of good flavour, fruits are early to ripen. Performs well in cooler areas.

Apple - Dwarf Pink Lady

An Australian selection named for her attractive pink blush over a yellow undertone. Her true pink coloring, crisp crunch and smooth texture assure the ultimate in dessert quality eating apples. Performs best in cooler regions.

Apple - Dwarf Red Delicious

The dwarfed red delicious produces excellent crops of bright red, large, crunchy apples. The flesh is greenish white and has a crisp texture. The are great to eat straight off the tree. Pollinate with a Granny Smith, Pink Lady or a Red Fuji. A high chill variety for cooler regions.

Feijoa

A very ornamental small bushy tree bearing egg shaped green skinned fruit that have a pleasant flavour. The scarlet flowers in spring are very showy and are sweet and edible.

Small Fruit Trees

These are fruit trees that are naturally small and will go well in pots or bonsai bags

Ginger

Acerola Cherry - Florida Sweet

Heavy cropper of cherry like fruit. When fully ripe the fruit is juicy and aromatic with its acid content giving it a sweet acid apple-like flavour. Fruits are extreemly high in vitamin c. Attactive pink flowers make this a very ornamental shrub.

Black Currant

These bushes produce masses of berries, high in Vitamin C. Ideal fruit for making jams, juice and even liqueur. Highly frost tolerant and best in areas where Winters are cold. Plant into rich moist free draining soil in a site protected from strong hot winds. Full sun or a site that gets late afternoon shade. Tolerant of heavy wet soils.

Gooseberry - Captivator

Thornless mildew resistent Gooseberry, red sweet fruit when fully ripe. Requires cold winters and a moist partial shaded area rich in organic matter. Small deciduous, prickly bush producing many green goosberry fruit in Summer.

French Sorrel

Leaves used for making soup and flavouring salads, or cooked as a vegetable. Leaves give a lemony flavour to fish and sauces. Perennial 1m

Arrowroot

This edible canna has large round red rhizomes can be eaten raw, cooked as potatoes or used as a flour and thickening agent. Tubers multiply prolifically in deep rich friable soil.

Taro Japanese

A staple crops throughout Asia and the Pacific. The delicious small tuber can substitute potato in almost any dish. Its heart-shaped leaves make for an attractive plant that grows well in shade and sun. Prefers moist soil.

Lemon Grass

This herb makes a delicious herbal tea, is often used in cooking, as an effective pest repellent and an almost impenetrable weed barrier. Tie the outer leaves in a loop and cook with food to impart flavour. Remove prior to serving.

Walking Stick Palm

This native miniature palm is found as an uderstorey throughout the subtropical rainforests of Australia. Growth is very slow in it's initial stages but very worthwhile to nuture as it is very attractive as an indoor plant. Orange fruits are edible.

Raspberry - Williamette

Bears large, deep red, flavourful fruits in mid- to late summer. Raspberries are biennials that perform best in full sun with plenty of water and a good fertilizing when blooms begin. They are generally thorny, although some cultivars are thornless.

Pepino - Kendall Gold

Small bush rarely above 1 m tall with yellow fruit stripped purple up to 10cm. Flavour is like a juicy rock melon. Only pick fragrant, slightly soft fruit which are ripe.

Aloe Vera

The healing powers of this plant have been known throughout the civilised world for centuries. While considered by many to be a member of the cactus family it is actually a member of the lily family along with onions and asparagus.

Cardamon Ginger

Ginger like plant growing in clumps, makes an excellent low screen adding a tropical feel to any garden. The seeds don't resemble true cardamon, the leaves can be used in desserts, to add flavour when steaming rice or used to wrap fish.

Turmeric

In the ginger family, this leafy tropical looking plant produces a spectacular flower in the summer. The Root can be harvested when the foliage dies back in the winter. Used to add a brilliant yellow colour and earthy flavour to Indian dishes.

Yacon - Apple of the Earth

Also known as the 'Earth Apple' this is one of the ancient crops of the Inca's. Produces large tubers similar in appearance to sweet potatoes, but they have a much sweeter taste and crunchy flesh. Vigorous, herbaceous perennial plant related to the sunflower growing to 2 metres tall.

Raspberry - Heritage

A primocane variety producing fruit on canes that arise from the ground during one season. Often referred to as low chill since canes do not need chilling to produce flowers. A most sought after variety as it fruits in Autumn thus extending the traditional fruiting period. It has a picking period of 8 - 12 weeks beginning in February.

Monstera

Often called the Fruit Salad plant as the ripened fruit has a pineapple-banana odour and fruit salad taste. The mature fruit has a yellow-green, violet-spotted rind of hexagonal plates covering a creamy-white, soft pulp.

Naranjilla

This small orange fruit can be used to make a delicious juice considered a delicacy in South American parts. The tree is very attractive with large leaves that have a purple velvet effect, although some can have thorns on the leaves and stems.

Taro Pacific

A large tuber, sometimes reaching up to 3-4 kg. Taro a staple crops of the Pacific. The delicious tuber can substitute potato in almost any dish. Its heart-shaped leaves make for an attractive ornamental plant that grows well in both shade and sun. Prefers moist soil.

Casana

Closely related to the tamarillo, it has large, furry leaves and produces heavy crops of mild-flavored fruits within 2 years. The fruits are oval and golden yellow when ripe. They are sweet, juicy, and said to be rather like a blend of peach and tomato in flavor. Native to the rain forests in the highlands of Ecuador.

Blueberry - Misty

The Misty is a true enigma, in that where it grows vigorously, such as on the red kraznozem soils of Northern NSW, it is very profitable and popular, yet on other soils it has often not grown well and is not a variety of popular choice. To produce high quality, early fruit, Misty is best grown under the evergreen system with attention being paid to nutrition and leaf diseases in order to keep the older leaves. It is an early fruiting variety, with light blue, medium to large fruit of excellent flavour.

Blueberry - Powderblue

One of the toughest blueberry varieties. It is a late season variety that may be planted with Tifblue for good cross-pollination. It can be mechanically harvested for fresh fruit, and the fruit has a very attractive pale blue colour, is medium in firmness and medium in size.

Ceylon Hill Gooseberry

An excellent ornamental shrub that produces a spectacular display of deep rose-pink or mauve flowers. The spring flowers are followed by round purple berries. The sweet berries are delicious eaten fresh or in Jams.

Midyim Berry

This shrub occurs naturally throughout the coastal areas of northern NSW and south east Qld. It produces pretty white flowers and an abundance of fruit. The soft pulp is described as being one of the most delicious of all bush foods.

Rose Myrtle

A small shrub with shiny foliage covered in perfumed shell pink flowers in late spring and summer. Attracts nectar & fruit eating birds & insects. Great as a specimen plant,formal hedge or for mid level sreen. Fruit edible.

Cassava

Tropical root crop similar to taro and yam. It is grown as a food source in the Pacific Island countries and Africa. Needs to be cooked properly to remove harmful toxins.

Blueberry - Brightwell

Vigorous, upright plant, which produces outstanding yields of medium-sized fruit. Rabbiteyes are hardy and well suited to the subtropics. It ripens early to midseason.

Tea Plant

Makes an attractive hedge with the added bonus of providing your own tea if you wish to dry the new leaf tips. The fragrant white flowers are an added bonus to this compact glossy leaved bush.

Magenta Cherry

A reliable species in most temperate and subtropical climates. In an ideal environment it makes a spectacular garden specimen with very attractive red edible fruit. A great hedge plant or pot specimen.

Miracle Fruit

Although not sweet itself this miraculous fruit, consumed fresh and allowed to coat the mouth alters your tastebuds so that everything you eat for around 30 minutes afterwards tastes sweet. Attractive potted plant.

Natal Plum

Ornamental shrub with fragrant flowers and edible plum like fruit. With its sharp spines or thorns, Natal plum makes a very effective and almost impenetrable hedge.

Coffee K7

Resistant to both 'Berry Disease' and 'Coffee Rust' this tree was developed and recommended for growing in the Northern Rivers Area by NSW Agriculture Department after extensive trials at Alstonville NSW. An open spreading variety, it is a reliable cropper, producing large flavour-filled beans; it is also the recommended variety for those who intend to harvest mechanically.

Blueberry - Backyard Blue

An excellent eating variety for the subtropics with very low chilling requirements. Cropping extends from July through to October. Self pollinating. A delight for the children this blueberry bears regularly and has large sized fruit.

Blueberry - Biloxi

The variety Biloxi was developed as a pollinator for Misty in Mississippi, for early season areas. One of the parents of this variety is Sharpeblue. In early trial plantings on the North Coast, it has fruited well with large medium flavoured berries early, but the fruit size drops off towards the end of the season. The fruit is light blue, with a mottled bloom appearance. It is of average flavour, with a medium scar and firm fruit. So far, in trial plantings, Biloxi has a habit of producing late spring flowering and a second harvest, during January and February.

Blueberry - Climax

An early season Rabbiteye variety that grows upright and has proven its toughness in various difficult soil locations. The berries have a good flavour, are medium in size, medium blue colour, and have a small scar. This variety was selected for its potential to machine harvest, and its concentrated ripening period. Planted with Premier, it is a good commercial choice.

Blueberry - Gulfcoast

A low chill high bush variety. Excellent flavour, firmness and good picking scar. A vigorous upright bush with moderate toughness and good tolerance to root rot.

Blueberry - Sharpblue

Excellent quality large fruit. Very low chill requirements and self-pollinating. A tough and vigorous bush. It has grown well in both sandy soils and heavier loams. The fruit has a wet scar, and is likely to become soft during very hot weather, meaning that it needs to be harvested frequently to overcome this.

Blueberry - Sunshine Blue

An ornamental blueberry that grows to about one metre high. It has attractive small leaves and a very attractive pink flower. The fruit is small to medium, dark, and of average flavour. The plants may be used as landscape specimens, and in patio containers.

Blueberry- Premier

A Rabbiteye variety released from North Carolina this variety is an early season rabbiteye variety, that produces fruit of excellent colour, size and flavour. The bushes are vigorous and productive, and have been suited to mechanical harvesting.

Raspberry - Atherton

Native Raspberry with a light palatable berry that is an excellent addition to fruit salads, with icecream or made into jam. Keep contained as it may pose a weed problem as they tend to spread by suckering

Blue flax-lily - Dianella caerulea

An evergreen tuft-forming perennial. Produces panicles of small star-shaped flowers in summer. Flowers followed by blue berries.

Cedar Bay Cherry

Often called Beach Cherry, fruit is sweet tasting and can be eaten fresh. One of Australia's best fresh fruits, with a very decorative bright orange-red coloured skin to 3cm. Slow growing

Cut leaf mintbush

An evergreen bushy shrub. The dried leaves are used as a substitute for mixed herbs. Prefers light moist soils in a protected shaded position. Frost resistant but drought tender.

Native Ginger - Alpinea coerulea

Native Ginger was a very versatile plant for Aboriginal people. The ginger tasting roots were eaten and the flesh from the bright blue fruit.The large leaves were thatched and used to make shelters and to wrap food for cooking. Inconspicuous flowers. 2m

Asparagus - Mary Washington

It is an attractive fernlike perennial that can produce fresh tasty spears for over 20 years if the beds are well-maintained. Asparagus prefers sandy soils but with the right preparation will perform very well in heavier clays. Valuable investment in the long term vegetable garden.

Choko

A vigorous vine with large green fruit cooked as a popular vegetable. Very versatile and often used as a pear and apple substitute or supplement in cooking.

Galangal

Galangal is a fantastic member of the ginger family. The plant has striking orchid-like blooms and is often found in subtropical and tropical gardens. The knobby root has a delicious exotic taste with a touch of pepper and ginger.

Ginger

Aromatic perennial plant with a pungent rhizome (underground stem)that is used as a spice, flavouring, food, and medicine. The leafy stems of ginger grow about a metre high. Very hardy.

Myoga Ginger

a native of Japan where it is grown commercially for its delicious spring shoots and young flower buds produced in autumn. Myoga flower buds are used in soups, tempura, pickled and as a spice. Like most gingers it is an understory of forests and so grows best under some shade. It can get sunburned leaves which will reduce its vigor if grown in full sun. In winter the top growth dies back and it regenerates in spring from the underground rhizomes.

Jerusalem Artichoke

Grown primarily for tubers that can be eaten fresh or raw, cooked in appetising ways similar to potatoes. Perennial herb often cultivated as an annual, tubers white, red or purple skinned.

Rhubarb - Sydney Crimson

The perennial rhubarb is often referred to as the ‘pie plant’ due to its use in pies. It is a highly productive plant that can be harvested within 6 months. Requires rich well drained soil.

Sweet Leaf Bush

Hardy sweet tasting green vegetable, very nutritious and high in vegetable protien.Eaten raw in salads, tasting similar to sweet fresh garden peas. Also used in stir fries, soups etc. Grows best in semi-shade to full sun. Drought tolerant

Ugni

An absolutely delicious flavour, it is very aromatic and tastes of wild strawberries. The fruit is about 15mm in diameter. Very cold hardy small shrub that is best pruned as a hedge.

Cocona

Closely related to the tamarillo, it is a shorter plant and produces fruit of an orange to maroon colour. The white flesh has a fruity tomato like flavour.

Grumichama - Black

The tropical equivalent of the cherry. The purplish-black fruit 2cm diameter are produced in clusters. Flesh white, melting and tasty. Mostly used for fresh eating, but also highly prized for jams, jellies and pies.

Grumichama - Yellow

This fruit is the tropical equivalent of the cherry and just as difficult to resist. The fruit is borne in clusters and is delicious eaten fresh. The yellow form is almost identical to the dark form apart from the yellow fruit.

Pineapple

The pineapple makes a very attractive patio plant, which will reward you with fruit within 2 years. In the Bromeliad family it requires very well drained potting mix and a sunny warm position, otherwise very hardy.

Cape York Turmeric

A beautiful native turmeric the rhizomes of which are eaten roasted by Aboriginals. Grows to 2m, yellow flowers with striking pink bracts.

Chinese Keys

Kunci (Indo), Kra chaai (Thai) - Formerly listed as Boesenbergia panduratum. A tropical perennial growing to 50 - 70cm high. Leaves die back in frost. It is the fat swollen roots that are sought after in this species and not the rhizome. The succulent roots are used to flavour many kinds of food either added raw or cooked. They are also sold in a pickled form in Indonesia & Thailand. Young leaves & shoots are also eaten.

Horseradish

Horseradish is famous for its spicy roots. It has a hot biting taste with a hint of sweetness. The plant is a hardy perennial herb that will grow rampantly under most condition except full shade and in wet ground. It is best controlled by growing in a container. Roots will keep in the ground throughout winter and can be harvested as required. They are an excellent source of sulfur. Young leaves can also be eaten raw or cooked, they have a strong flavour so are best used in moderation.

Sugar Herb - Stevia

The fresh or dried leaves can be used as a sugar substitute to sweeten cakes, drinks or desserts and are the only natural sweetener to have zero calories, carbohydrates and a zero glycemic index.

Blue Tongue

Widespread native, very attractive bushy shrub with dark green leaves and large pink to mauve flowers over many months. Also produces sweet edible blue black berries. Very hardy. Often confused with the exotic tibouchina.

Ceylon Hill Gooseberry - Cutting Grown

The cutting grown Ceylon Hill Gooseberry will flower and fruit straight away producing a beautiful display of showy pink flowers followed by the delicious fruits.

Blueberry - Tifblue

This Rabbiteye variety was introduced in Georgia in 1955 and was for many years the standard by which all other rabbiteye varieties were judged. The fruit is firm and light blue, and has a good flavour when it is properly ripened. The fruit is in loose clusters, is firm and has a dry stem scar, making it suitable for mechanical harvesting. The fruiting period is as for powderblue and the bush is very productive and vigorous, for many years.

Coffee arabica

Easy to process and relatively problem free the arabica thrives in frost free climates. In as little as three years the plant will be covered with white jasmine-scented flower clusters and cherry red berries.

NULLY PIGFACE - Belongil

Edible maroon berry with very high mineral levels. It has a strawberry and kiwifruit taste, with a slightly salty edge. The fruit is typically eaten by squeezing and sucking the succulent pulp into the mouth, with the astringent skin being discarded. The fruit keeps well and makes an attractive garnish, and can be used in preserved foods like chutney.

Atherton Native Ginger (Red Form)

Versatile plant used by Aboriginal people. The ginger tasting roots were eaten and the flesh from the bright blue fruit. This Red Coloured form is from Atherton Tablelands.The large leaves were thatched and used to make shelters and to wrap food for cooking.

Rhubarb - Silvan Giant

A strong growing variety with thick red stalks produced in profusion through much of the year. Delicious in pies and crumbles. A good variety for colder climates.

Chinese Waterchestnut

These nutritious underground corms have an appealing crisp nut like texture when eaten raw and cooked. Plant in wet areas and harvest annually.

Cape Gooseberry

This is a low lying bush with bright orange berries enclosed in a pale brown parchment-like case. The berry is the size of a cherry tomato, is very aromatic and full of tiny hard seeds. They are delicious eaten straight or made into gooseberry Jam.

Sweet Potato - Red Star

An excellent Red skinned white fleshed variety. The Sweet Potato is a perennial trailing plant that develops fleshy tuberous roots over summer which are harvested in autumn.

Garlic Chives

The flat strappy leaves of this perennial herbs add a delicate garlic flavour to stir fries, salads and other savoury dishes. They can be used in place of garlic where a less spicy and more delicate flavour is desired. The attractive flowers are also edible and if left to mature to seed, the seeds can be sprouted for a peppery and healthy addition to the salad bowl.

Bell Chilli

Very attactive bell shaped chilli, medium to hot flavoured and are excellent for pickling.

Bali Chili - Cabe

Rocoto Tree Chilli

Unlike other chillies, the ROCOTO is a small perennial tree. The fruit matures from green to red and ranges in heat from medium very hot depending on the weather. Its attractive foliage produces masses of brightly coloured fruits all year round for more than ten years.

Rosella

An attactive annual bushy shrub with flowers and fruit used to give colour and flavour to jams, fruit punches, sauces and desserts. A relative of the hibiscus family, best grown in rich soil in a sunny position.

Strawberry - Maroochy Flame

Early fruiting, long season. Attractive red, glossy, medium sized fruit with excellent flavour. Very productive. Slightly pale foliage.

Sweet Potato - Gold Star

A promising commercial variety with heavy cropping characteristics and orange flesh. The Sweet Potato is a perennial trailing plant that develops fleshy tuberous roots over summer which are harvested in autumn.

Chilli - Yellow Cayenne

A mild chili which has a sweet taste. Yellow Cayenne chillies are ideal in Asian dishes and can be used for pickling. Chillies are long capsicum like up to 100mm changing from green to yellow then red on full maturity.

Goji Berry

Native to the Himalayas where it has been used for thousands of years for its health benefiting properties. The fruit are very high in antioxidants and vitamin C, they have a sweet, juicy taste comparable to cranberries Plants prefer a sheltered sunny spot with good drainage and a trellis, wall or structure to climb up and scramble over.

Lemon Verbena

A deciduous shrub native to South America. It is an attractive plant with beautiful lemon scented leaves that can be used to flavour sweet and savoury dishes as well as making a refreshing herbal tea.

Syzgium paniculata - Magenta Cherry

Most popular native hedging plant in Australia. Attractive dense glossy new growth. Also edible crunchy cherry like fruit.

Alpinia caerulea - Atherton Native Ginger (Red Form)

Dianella caerulea - Blue flax-lily

An evergreen tuft-forming perennial. Produces panicles of small star-shaped flowers in summer. Flowers followed by blue berries.

Alpinia caerulea - Native Ginger

A versatile plant for Aboriginal people.The ginger tasting roots were eaten and the flesh from the bright blue fruit.The large leaves were thatched and used to make shelters and to wrap food for cooking. Excellent landscape specimen.

Dianella atraxis - Blue Flax Lily

A tufted grass like plant native to North Queensland. It has deep blue fruits and flowers and grows to a height of 1 m.

Prostanthea incisa - Cut leaf mint Bush

Fine leaved bushy shrub with a strongly aromatic leaves. Violet flowers with small fruit. 1m

Bonsai in Pots

These are fruit trees that will grow very large when in the ground but can also be grown in pots. When their root system is restricted in a pot they will stay small and still produce fruit. The trick to successful bonsai your fruit trees is regular root and top pruning as well as repotting annually with a good quality potting mix. Our Bonsai Bags make this process easier. For Full Details please read our blog on Bonsai Fruit Trees.

Plum - Mariposa

A Japanese blood plum with dark red flesh and large fruit if thinned. The flavour is excellent, the skin glossy red and it has a egg shaped fruit. Will crop over a wide range of climates. Pollinator Satsuma

Persimmon - Nightingale

A deep-orange flesh that is very sweet and juicy when ripe. A conical large shape. Very high quality flesh that is most often seedless. Compact growing. Astringent

Medlar - Nottingham

A pretty, small ornamental tree with 5cm diameter edible brown fruit. Blooms in late spring with large flowers resembling single white roses. Fruit is eaten when soft, generally after a frost and has a mild flavour similar to a pear. Self - fertile.

Custard Apple - African Pride

This heart shaped fruit has a medium thick skin, more seed than the Pink’s Mammoth and produces high yields. The early and consistent bearing, presentable fruit and early maturing is what makes this the main commercial variety.

Mexican Custard Apple

This grafted selection has an attactive reddish yellow skinned fruit with with white flesh. A. reticulata are generally considered lower quality than Atemoyas and Cherimoyas. Its big advantage is it crops through summer months when other custard apples are out of season.

Peach - Tasty Zee

An attractive, white-fleshed peach with excellent quality. Produces commercial grade peaches that are very sweet, firm and juicy, freestone. Used for fresh fruit and drying. Late-season maturity.

Plum - Green gage

European plum with small-medium sized, roundish fruit with greenish-yellow skin. Flesh is amber-yellow coloured, firm, freestone. Good, sweet flavour. Tends to bear biannually. A favourite for cooking, canning and desserts. Ripens in late summer. Forms relatively small tree. Pollinate with Prune d'Agen.

Plumcott - Flavour Supreme Plum (PBR)

This plum/apricot hybrid is one of a new generation of traditionally bred plums with a bright, very sweet flavour, does not have the tart aftertaste of many plums; this has been replaced with the aroma of the apricot. PluotÆ interspecific plums are as easy to grow as any regular plum. Suitable pollinizer: 'Mariposa'.

Pomegranate - Elcite

Large yellow skinned variety of Spanish origin, soft seeds. Not as attractive as the Wonderful but has a pleasant sweet flavour. The red juice surrounding the seed is highly prized for its antioxidant properties.

Pomegranate - Wonderful

A large, deep purple-red fruit. Flesh is deep crimson in colour, juicy and of a delicious vinous flavour. Seeds not very hard. Good for juicing and eating out of hand. Plant is vigorous and productive. Best commercial variety in California.

Plum - Yarrahapinni Blood

Medium sized self pollinating blood plum that requires approximately 450 hours of chill. It is very ornamental with deep red leaves, and has beautiful pink flowers in spring. Bears around late December.

Fig - Brown Turkey

A brown skinned medium to large fig with copper-coloured skin and whitish to pink pulp. Very good quality with few seeds. A prolific bearer and popular commercial variety.

Lemon - Meyer

The popular Meyer is not a true lemon but likely to be a natural hybrid between a lemon and an orange. The lower acidity and reduced bitterness makes it one of the most widely grown home-garden varieties. Very hardy and prolific.

Angel Peach - Subtropical

The Angel Peach is a new form of peach, which has donut shaped fruit. It is a very sweet yellow fleshed variety, which is more soft and juicy in texture compared with standard peaches. Will crop in warm subtropical climates. Requires approximately 150 hours chill. Suitable from Rockhampton south to the subtropics and coastal NSW.

Nashi Pear - China

Very low chill selection that has acclimatised to the subtropical areas of northern NSW. The quality is inferior to other Nashi varieties but it is excellent as a cooking pear.

Olive - Arbequina

A Spanish variety of fruiting olive, this attractive evergreen tree is self-fertile and begins cropping very early. It is prized for both the olives and the oil. Medium vigor and compact shape makes it ideal for backyards. Performs well in warm climates

Loquat - Bessell Brown

Large to very large fruit with large seed. Thick, orange skin resistant to bruising with firm white flesh. Pleasant mild flavour

Nashi Pear - Shinseiki

Round, medium to large, yellow fruit. Crisp creamy white flesh; mild, sweet flavour. Tastes best when tree ripened. Hangs on the tree in good condition for 4 - 6 weeks. Vigorous and spreading. Self-pollinating with a lower chill requirement than most.

Mulberry - White Shahtoot

Large sweet fruit can reach up to 10cm in length. It is delicious eaten fresh but can also be sundried and eaten as a sweet. Medium sized spreading tree with a weeping habit, excellent shade tree. Birds love them too so make sure you cover them if you don't want to share. You can also get multiple crops by pruning immediately after your first crop. (White Shahtoot Video)

Loquat - Nagasakiwase

The best Japanese variety so far, it has tough skin, deep orange flesh, high flesh/seed ratio and very sweet flavour. Earliest variety to ripen. Thinning fruit will enhance fruit size.

Fig Black Genoa

A large sized fig with purple skin and red flesh that has a very sweet rich flavour. Grown commercially due to its high yields it is also a popular selection for home gardeners.

Fig White Adriatic

A green to yellow skinned medium to large sized fig with red pulp and excellent flavour. When tree ripened this fig is unsurpassed with its rich strawberry flesh. Peels very easily when ripe.

Peach - Florda prince

Yellow-fleshed variety requiring only 150 hours chill. A medium sized round fruit with a firm skin and good blush. Semi-clingstone. Earliest fruiting peach, popular low chill variety

Grapefruit - Flame

Similar to Star Ruby. The Flame has a greater intensity and pinkness of the rind. A heavy producing variety. Grapefruits are heavy produces of bunches of fruit high in Vit C and make excellant juices.

Kumquat - Variegated

A highly ornamental kumquat with variegated foliage. Well suited as a pot specimen.

Lemon - Lisbon

A good quality bitter lemon with high juice and acid levels. The fruits of Eureka and Lisbon are very similar. Vigorous and productive, trees are very thorny particularly when young.

Mandarin - Sunburst

Sunburst trees are moderately vigorous, thornless, upright and spreading. Cold hardy. Produce high quality, attractive fruit of the mandarin or tangerine type with good flavour. Reddish-orange rind at maturity. Segments easily separated. Juicy fruit with dark orange flesh colour.

Peach - Aztec Gold

Aztec Gold has a yellow flesh and requires up to 300 hours of chill. It has a good resistance to bacterial black spot. A large firm fleshed peach that grows well in the subtropics. Resistant to bacterial black spot. Aztec Gold has yellow flesh and red / yellow skin.

Mango - R2E2 (Grafted)

One of the largest and most attractive fruits with good, sweet flavour. High flesh to seed ratio with very slight fibre. Susceptible to Black Spot and Anthracnose. It has proven to be a consistent cropper over a range of climates. Vigorous growth habit. wt 675gms. DPI link

Mandarin - Honey Murcott

Orange - Lanes Late

Seedless variety, maturing later than all other navels, usually mid July through to October. Thin smooth rind.

Plum - Satsuma

Red to purple flesh with a freestone. The flavour is good, the growth vigorous and its bears particularly well, in fact to get large fruits it may require thinning. The firm juicy flesh has a sweet spicy flavour. Self pollinating. 350 - 400 hours chill. Bears November to early December.

Pomegranate - Rosavaya

A winner on flavour, even if not the most elegant fruit. Galusha Rosavaya fruit tends to be slightly elongated, pink and angular - but the arils are large and the flavour is exceptional.

Kumquat - Calomondin

In the Philippines it is referred to a as Calamansi, where the acid pulp is used to make chutneys, marmalades or as a lime substitute. Very ornamental bearing heavy crops of small round fruits.

Orange - Valencia Seedless

This seedless orange is a bud sport of the Valencia, maturing a little earlier, its a heavy cropper and good juicing variety. Attractive compact tree.

Mulberry - Beenleigh Black

Large juicy very sweet fruit to 4cm. This tree requires virtually no maintenance and is fairly drought-resistant once established. Well suited to a range of climates.

Nashi - Yali Pear

The Yali pear has very white, very juicy and very sweet flesh, with a satisfying crunch to it. The skin and the flesh texture is smooth making it a scrumptious delight. It pollinates well with all other nashis.

Fig - Piconi

A favourite of local fruit enthusiast John Piconi. This fig produces small fruit that is exceptionally sweet. Green skinned with dark red flesh, medium size fruit.

Lime - Kaffir

Native to Indonesia but widely grown worldwide as a backyard shrub for its aromatic leaves that add a unique flavour to Thai cooking. Well suited to container growing. The rough bumpy fruit is inedible but its oil has strong insecticidal properties.

Mandarin - Emperor

Nashi Pear - Kosui

Small, flat, bronze russet, early maturing, high quality sweet fruit. Nashi's combine the crunchiness of an apple and the sweetness of a pear.

Persimmon - Flat Seedless (A)

A smooth textured, juicy fruit of excellent quality. Fruit is large flat shaped. One of the best Astringent varieties, has to be fully ripe to eat. Vigorous grower.

Plum - Iluka Blood

A red fleshed, local blood plum with very sweet, small round fruit. Self pollinating. 400 hours chill. Bears Nov to Dec.

Fig Excel

An early fruiting medium sized fig with amber pulp and yellow skin. A good all-purpose fig with sweet, rich pulp.

Nectarine - Early Rivers

An attractive fruit with yellow skin streaked with red. Fruits are large and juicy with delicious sweet yellow flesh. They are a high chill variety suited to cooler regions where they are early to fruit.

Sapodilla - Sawo Manila

Selected cultivar from Philippines. Very sweet, medium size, elliptical with light brown skin. Sapodillas are highly prized in Asia with their sweet brown sugar cinnamon flavoured fruit that look like potatoes

Sapodilla - Prolific

The Prolific has smooth pinkish-tan flesh when ripe. The fruits are round to conical and are long and broad, they tend to loose much of the furry texture on the skin when they are ripe. Trees are heavy bearers.

Governors Plum - Select Thornless

A small tree that bears large edible berries of dark purple to black and is similar in texture to a European plum. The grafted or cutting grown variety is thornless.

Star Apple - Grimmel

Grafted selection that bears regular crops of quality fruit. Highly ornamental tree with its attractive brownish underside leaves. 5cm diamter fruit is purple skinned, with white tinged purple sweet and delicious flesh.

Star Apple - Haitian

This purple fruiting selection was made in Florida in 1952. A heavy yielding tree with well-formed and very high quality fruit. Highly ornamental tree with its attractive brownish underside leaves. Not suitable for temperate climates.

Star Apple - Pink

Fruit is apple sized, purple or green skin, with semi-translucent flesh that is soft and juicy. Flavour is sweet and delicious. A pink fleshed variety. Not suitable for temperate climates.

Star Apple - Weeping

The fruit is a tennis ball size, purple and of a very good quality. Originated as a seedling of Haitian. Attractive weeping foliage.

Carambola Starfruit - Kary

Excellent flavour, bright skin and juicy flesh with few seeds, bearing a summer and winter crop. It exhibits more cold tolerance than other varieties. Carambolas are also called Star Fruit.

Carambola - Kembangan

This Star Fruit has bright yellow-orange fruit that is slightly elongated and pointed. The flesh is juicy and firm with few seeds. Flavour rich and sweet; excellent dessert quality.

Mango - Alphonse

Yellow skinned, medium size, only slight fibre, excellent quality. Sets well in subtropics.

Mango - Brooks Late

Ovate shaped fruit with a green/yellow skin colour. Fruit weigh between 300 - 800 gms and sets regularly and heavy and can be consumed both as green and ripe fruit. One of the latest ripening varieties.

Mango - Florigon

Definitely the winner in the taste department. The soft sweet flesh melts in your mouth. The fruit has a small seed and virtually no fibre. Considered by some to be too small for the market it certainly makes up for its lack of size with taste. Yellow skinned, excellent quality fruits. Sets well in subtropics. Moderately resistant to Anthracnose, susceptible to Black Spot. Average wt. 300g. (Video - Grafting a Florigon Mango)

Mango - Glenn

Sweet, juicy flavoured Mango with no fibre. It has moderate resistance to Anthracnose and very good resistance to Bacterial Black Spot. An excellent early variety. Average wt. 350gms.

Mango - Kasturi

A small crisp and spicy flavoured mango that is ideal for eating fresh and cooking. Vigorous grower.

Mango - Keitt

Mango - Kensington Pride grafted

Australian standard variety, excellent flavour, very juicy and aromatic. Crops irregularly in wet cold areas. Moderate susceptibility to Anthracnose and Black Spot. Average wt. 450gms. (Sams Selection)

Mango - Kwan

Similar to the Nam doc mai, but twice the size. It has elongated fruit of a consistent light yellow. This variety has excellent disease resistance and is a heavy cropper. Performs very well in south eastern Qld and the northern coast of NSW.

Mango - Nam doc mai

(Thai-type mango) Green-yellow skin, sweet, tender and juicy with an excellent flavour. Regular cropper in cooler climates.It is elongated and tapers to a long point. They contain little acid and are fibreless. Susceptible to Anthracnose, resistant to Black Spot. Size 375gms. It is esteemed by Asian cultures as a pickled fruit, or as one eaten green or ripe.

Mango - Palmer

promising late variety with large elongated fruit. Brightly coloured skin coloured with purple and red. The apricot-coloured flesh is smooth and almost fibreless. Very sweet and good quality. Produces well and is fairly consistent. Susceptible to Anthracnose and Black Spot. Size 500gms.

Mango - Rick's Bowen

Yellow skinned, medium size, only slight fibre, excellent quality. Sets well in subtropics.

Mango - Royal Red

A large red skinned, sweet, non stringy, delicious Mango. Ideal for backyard growers as tends to be a smaller tree. Grows well in South-east QLD.

Mango - Tommy Atkins

Attractive colour and medium to good quality. Regular, moderate cropper. Good resistance to Anthracnose, susceptible to Black Spot. Popular commercial variety 460gms.

Mango - Valencia Pride

An excellent choice of mango and is believed by some to set the taste standard. The highly coloured fruit is large and beautiful. The fruit is longer than the bowen and has a thinner skin. It is a vigorous and upright tree. Consistently productive. 450gms

Mango - Van Dyke

Sweet, sleightly turpy flavour. Can have variable quality in some areas. High resistance to Anthracnose and Bacterial Black Spot. Very attractive fruit. Average wt. 280gms.

Wampi - Guy Sam

Proven to be an excellent fruit, with a sweet tangy aromatic flavour. Brown skinned variety. Wampees are a handsome foliage evergreen tree grown for Summer ripe fruit with grape like flesh.

Wampi - Yeem Pay

Elongated, large yellow skinned variety. Heavy cropping and very sweet. It is also a highly valued backyard tree in southern China. The fruits are highly aromatic and have a sweet tangy flavour.

Australian Round Lime

Also called Dooja occurs naturally in the areas just outside the rainforest canopy. Its fruits are rough skinned and globular, but quite edible when still green, even though they turn yellow on the tree.

Citron - Buddhas Hand

Citrons are one of the oddities of the citrus family as unlike other well known citrus they’re not eaten fresh. This fruit looks like an old shrivelled hand with a thick uneven tightly adhered rind. Low on juice they can be acidic or sweet.

Grapefruit - Honneffs Surprise

An Orange-Grapefruit cross with heavy crops of dark orange skinned fruits. The sweet fruit has a thin rind, few seeds and is very juicy.

Grapefruit - Marshs Seedless

One of the most commonly grown of the yellow grapefruit. The medium to large fruit is very sweet and juicy. The trees are vigorous and productive.

Grapefruit - Rio Red

The Rio Red has less colour than Star Ruby and the colour of fruit on individual trees can vary considerably. Needs to be harvested soon after maturity.

Grapefruit - Star Ruby

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.

Kumquat - Meiwa

Similar to the Marumi. A round brightly coloured fruit that can be eaten straight from the tree. Both the skin and the flesh are very sweet. Cold hardy.

Kumquat - Nagami

Lemon - Eureka

This lemon is probably the most widely grown lemon in the world It’s a true 'bitter' lemon with a high juice and acid content. Can have some fruit most of the year. With good care the fruit is thin-skinned and virtually seedless.

Lemon - Fino

Spanish variety noted for its smooth rind texture and consistent heavy crops, Main crop in winter with smaller Autumn and Spring crops. Vigorous variety similar to Eureka, with some thorns.

Lemon - Verna

Has been recently introduced into Australia, its origins are unknown but it has been extensively planted throughout Spain. The tree is vigorous with a spreading habit and small thorns. Fruit are less rounded in shape than other varieties and have a pronounced neck with few seeds.

Lemon - Villa Franca

Belongs to the Eureka group. A good winter cropper. The large trees are thornier than others.

Finger Lime - Grafted

A long narrow fruit with thin skin that ranges in colour from green, yellow, purple and red. The fruit contains an acid juice similar to that of a lime. A delicate rainforest tree that offers a distinctive citrus flavour to sweet or savoury dishes. The juicy cells, similar in appearance to caviar, are a delightful surprise in salad dressings. A rainforest tree that naturally occurs as an understorey tree in SE Queensland and Northern NSW.

Lime - Tahitian

Mandarin - Clauselliana (Satsuma)

A seedless Japanese type variety. Large fruit, low tree vigour makes it suitable as a good dwarf variety. From Spain.

Mandarin - Daisy

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.

Mandarin - Ellandale

A medium to large fruit with medium rind. Relatively easy to peel when mature. Bright orange, very juicy flesh with a rich flavour. Moderately seedy. Lat midseason.

Mandarin - Encore

Mandarin - Fallglo

Good size, colour, flavour and easy peeled. May be seedy if cross pollinated. Moderate vigour, susceptible to cold.

Mandarin - Freemont

Bright reddish-orange peel, rich flavor, tender and juicy. Some seeds, heavy bearer. Where protected from cold, fruit flavor is unsurpassed.

Mandarin - Hickson

Noted for its superb flavour, the fruit is of medium size and is easily peeled. Can suffer from winter yellowing. H July- August

Mandarin - Imperial

A proven early variety that is still very popular today. Excellent colour and flavour; the skin is smooth, glossy, thin and easy to peel. Older trees may develop a biennial bearing habit.

Mandarin - Miho Wase (Satsuma)

Very early fruiting and easy peeling. High sugar levels in fruit. Very popular export variety. One of the main satsuma varieties of Japan. Slow growing dwarf tree. Fruit is better flavoured than the common Silverhill variety although a little smaller.

Mandarin - Nules (Clementine)

Most popular Clementine mandarin grown, early, good size and vigorous tree. Seedless when grown by itself.

Mandarin - Okitsu wase (Satsuma)

Seedless, good flavour, low acid and high TSS. Satsumas are cold hardy and form a compact growing tree. They are the earliest mandarins in the marketplace. .

Mandarin - Pixie

Late maturing Californian variety, seedless good flavour. Upright growth and vigorous.

Orange - Arnold Blood

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.

Orange - Fisher Navel

An early maturing variety from California has been found to mature earlier than Washington navel. Fischer yields about the same as Spanish Navelina.

Orange - Hamlin

A mid season all purpose orange that is used for both juicing and fresh eating. Very good flavour and vigorous growth.

Orange - Midknight Seedless

A Valencia orange selection matureing 2 - 4 weeks ahead of other Valencias. Very thin rind. Large round virutally seedless fruit. Excellent flavour.

Orange - Navelate

Fruit is slightly oblong, has excellent flavour and rind texture and is a consistent cropper. Navelate matures about the same time as Washington but can be stored mature on the tree about three weeks longer. Trees can be slightly thorny when young.

Orange - Navelina

A Spanish variety. Navelina produces fruit of excellent quality and brilliant colour, very early in the season. Good fruit size and naturally develops an outstanding deep red orange skin which is very attractive.

Orange - Newhall

Excellent quality, large oblong fruit, regular and good cropper in subtropical areas. Very similar to the Navilina with similar yields.

Orange - Pere

Orange - Smooth Seville

These trees are vigorous and hardy. They make attractive garden and street trees and great marmalade.

Orange - Valencia

Late variety, very juicy, holds well. The ideal variety to extend the season right through to December. Crops very well in the subtropics

Orange - Washington Navel

The oldest and most popular navel grown in Australia. Has excellent skin colour and taste, and usually produces round fruit. Is inclined to drop fruit and split in some climates.

Pummello - Tahiti

Roundish yellow thin-rinded fruit of excellent quality. Very juicy, greenish flesh. Unique agreeable spicy-sweet flavour with lime-like overtones.

Pummelo - Carters Red

Pummelo - Flicks Yellow

White fleshed, excellent mild flavour. Cold hardy. Certain characteristics suggest this is not a true pummelo but a hybrid.

Tangello - Minneola

Minneola is a medium to very large, round to bell shaped fruit with a pronounced neck. The deep orange to red-orange coloured skin has a smooth pebbly peel. Very few seeds.

Tangello - Seminole

The Seminole fruit is large and grapefruit shaped with a deep red-orange skin. It is very juicy, seedy and has a rich sweet flavour with a grapefruit character. A heavy cropping tree. H Sept Nov

Apricot - Bentley

Very similar to the Glengarry, this local selection originates from just outside Lismore. A hardy tree, that comes into fruiting early and produces good crops of good quality, medium sized apricots. Approx. chill hours 500, slightly higher than Glengarry, fruiting in November.

Apricot - Buledo

Buleda is very well suited to the inland areas west of Gatton and Lismore. The dark golden fruit is large and firm with sweet flesh. 500 hours chill required.

Apricot - Glengarry

Heavy cropping variety with small pale golden fruit and a slight blush. The tree is large, vigorous and heavy bearing. One of a few varieties that will crop in the subtropics. Video - Glengarry |

Nashi Pear - Hosui

A very large, juicy, sweet, low acid, bronze-skinned pear that is one of the most popular varieties. Hosui is partially self-pollinating however will benefit from cross pollination with Kosui.

Nashi Pear - Nijiseiki

A heavy bearing spreading variety. Medium sized round fruit of excellent eating quality with yellowish green clear skin and moderate sugar content. This variety appears to set fruit without pollination however the fruit is smaller.

Nectarine - Sunmist

(88-11) A white flesh variety requiring up to 350 hours chill. A Semi-clingstone variety with nicely shaped fruit that is medium to large with dull purple skin, firm flesh highly resistant to Bacterial spot.

Nectarine - Sunraycer

Yellow-fleshed subtropical nectarine. Semi-clingstone with well shaped large sized fruit. Good skin colour and non-browning flesh. Good flavour and high resistance to bacterial spot. (Video: Sunraycer Nectarine)

Nectarine - Sunwright

A yellow-fleshed nectarine to 150 hours chill. A semi -clingstone, oval fruit, small to medium size with attractive colour, (80 - 90% blush), slightly soft flesh, good flavour. Very early fruiting. Thin fruit to get good fruit size.(Video: Sunwright Nectarine)

Nectarine - White Satin

White aromatic fleshed nectarine requiring 250 hours chill. Beautiful red skin and excellent quality fruit. Prune after fruiting in summer to encourage fruiting wood for next season. Thin fruit for good fruit size. (Video)

Peach - China Flat

China Flat is a white-fleshed variety needing 150 hours chill. A freestone heirloom variety that is flat in shape, pale in colour and with a delicious taste. Firm flesh.

Peach - Florda Gem

Semi freestone, average shape, medium size. Very attractive bright yellow with up to 60% red blush in warmer areas. Very firm, good flavour, moderately resistant to bacterial spot.

Peach - Flordagold

Flordagold is a yellow-fleshed variety requiring up to 325 hours chill. A Semi-freestone peach with rounded medium to large, attractive coloured fruit. Excellent quality.

Peach - Tropic Beauty

Yellow fleshed variety needing only 150 hours chill. A semi-clingstone peach with round, large size and very good skin colour. Very firm with excellent flavour. One of the best Subtropical peach selections.

Peach - Tropic Snow

White, non browning fleshed variety requiring only 225 hours chill. A freestone peach with round, medium to large, creamy white skin and outstanding flavour. Highly resistant to bacterial spot. Ripens early November.

Peachcot - Ora A

Early maturing, firm dark orange skin and flesh, with very good flavour. Resistant to bacterial black spot. Botanicaly a peach but has apricot characteristics. Low chill and can be grown successfully in subtropics (Peachcot Video)

Persimmon - 20th Century (A)

An astringent persimmon with medium sized fruits. Excellent back yard tree, it is precocious and is delicious eaten fresh when fully ripe. The tree has particularly beautiful autumn colours in its foliage before the leaves drop for winter.

Persimmon - Fuyu (NA)

The fruit is large and flat, orange-red in colour with a sweet, mild flavour. Semi-dwarf variety. Besides there delicious fruit Persimmons are highly ornamental with the beautiful autumn foliage. Non astringent, so can be eaten when still hard.

Persimmon - Hachiya

A large conical fruit, deep orange / red in colour. Requires hot summers to ripen the fruit. Quite astringent until soft, very flavourful sweet fruit when fully ripe. Heavy producer and very attractive. Ripens late in the season. Self fertile. Requires approximately 200 chill hours. Astringent. Watch Video ^NEW

Persimmon - Izu (NA)

The earliest maturing of the non-astringent varieties. The medium-sized fruit has a burnt orange skin and soft flesh with a good amount of syrup. The flavour is very good. The tree has slightly dwarfing characteristics. Set a good crop.180-200 gms.

Plum - 87_7

Plum - Barlows Early

This local selection has red to yellow flesh sometimes referred to as the 'Kyogle Plum'. The flesh is very sweet. 400 hours chill. Selfpollinating. Bears November to December.

Plum - Early Sweet

Plum - Gulf Blaze

(87_4) Promising variety with tasty and juicy fruit. Good low chill selection of 350 hours

Plum - Gulf Ruby

Juicy, yellow flesh, clingstone, large size if properly thinned, attractive red skin blush, resistant to bacterial spot. Very low chill 275 hrs. Pollinator Gulfgold or Gulfblaze.

Plum - Gulfbeauty

(85-1) Earliest ripening of low chill plums. Fruit colour is dark red, with yellow flesh. Sour skin but sweet flesh when fully ripe. Good fruit size when thinned and heavy cropping. Pollinates with Gulfruby, Gulfgold, Gulfblaze. Requires 325 hours chill. Oct to Nov

Plum - Gulfgold

This golden plum is firm with excellent flavour & texture and a small seed. 350 hours chill. Dwarfing characteristics makes this an ideal backyard variety. An excellent all-round variety with the added bonus that it doesn’t seem to be affected by fruit fly. Partially self pollinating but benefits from pollination with Gulfruby, Gulfblaze.

Plumcott

Cross between a plum and an apricot. Has the smell of an apricot and the flavour of a plum. Fruits early February. Pollination required, Mariposa plum

Medlar - Dutch

Quince Tree - 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.

Carob - Clifford

This one of the two available HERMAPHRODITES (self pollinating) which makes it a must for all orchards. The medium size beans are of good quality with 50%+ sugar content. An early fruit bearer on young trees. Yields are excellent with irrigation. This is the best variety we have.

Fig Prestons Prolific

Very thick flesh, creamy white and juicy, with sweet flavour. Extremely vigorous and late cropping.

Olive - Kalamata (Grafted)

Their fruit is juicy and sweet and have a unique torpedo shape and split in the skin. The most popular olive in Australia, they are ideal for use in cooking or as an olive to eat alone. Trees are grafted as they are difficult to propagate by cuttings.

Black Sapote - Bernicker

This Chocolate Pudding fruit variety has proved very popular in Australia. The near spherical fruit is medium to large with only 1 or 2 seeds. Superb eating quality and prolific producer.

Black Sapote - Ricks Late

This Chocolate Pudding Fruit selection from northern NSW has excellent eating qualities. Crops well into late spring to extend the harvest. Heavy cropper. Also called 'Chocolate Pudding Fruit'. Delicious when eaten as a desert with cream and a touch of Rum or vanilla

Black Sapote - Superb

A selection originating from north Qld. As the name suggests it is a superb quality fruit. Tends to be seedless if not cross pollinated. Heavy bearing. Also called 'Chocolate Pudding Fruit'. Delicious when eaten as a desert with cream and a touch of Rum or vanilla

Canistel - Emma

Heavy bearing cold hardy selection that bears medium sized fruit. Very sweet, mealy textured fruit.

Canistel - Gray

Canistel Aurea

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.

Canistel - Lindel

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.

Cherimoya - Fina de Jete

Cherimoya is and excellent shaped fruit with juicy, sweet flesh. When mature, black speckles may appear under skin. Matures mid-season. Spain’s main commercial variety.

Cherimoya - White

Cherimoya is a very heavy cropper of large fruit with juicy flesh that can be a little gritty just below the skin. The unique flavours suggests a hint of mango-papaya. A pleasure to eat due to its low seed count. A commercial favourite in California.

Custard Apple - Gefner

Geffner is an Israeli cultivar with a moderate to heavy cropping capacity. The flavour is exceptionally good and although it performs well it’s not superior to the African Pride.

Custard Apple - Hilary White

Hilary White is a strain of Pink’s Mammoth. The cropping performance is between that of Pink’s Mammoth and the African Pride. The fruit has a smoother skin than standard Pink’s Mammoth, but average fruit shape. The fruit is sweet and aromatic.

Custard Apple - Late Gold

A stunning golden bronze fruit with soft skin and a high flesh ratio. Good

sized fruit. Proving to be an excellent performer in the Northern Rivers.

Custard Apple - Pinks Mammoth

has the delicious and melting taste of the sugar apple which makes it one of the most popular of the custard apples. As the name suggests the virtually seedless fruit is one of the largest. Top marks for quality, however a lower yield than the African Pride. Pinks Mammoth has a very large fruit size and high fruit quality. It is named after Mr Pink, the man who introduced it to Australia. When mature the tree produces significant yields.

Guava Hawaiian - Pink Supreme

This cutting grown variety is one of the largest of the guavas and has a high juice content and fruit to seed ratio. It is a popular commercial variety with pink fleshed fruit. Bears heavily after one year.

Green Sapote - Schnyder

A close relative of the Mamey Sapote this tree is more compact and cold hardier. The dark dull green fruit turns to gold when ripe and has a superior flavour to the Mamey. Grafted selection from Casper Schydners orchard in Redlands Bay Qld.

Pitomba

An excellent ornamental shrub that is native to Brazil. Orange fruit with soft, melting, juicy flesh with a highly aromatic slightly acid flavour. They are good eaten fresh or made into jelly and preserves. It requires regular moisture and does not like to dry out.

Rollinia - Limberlost

A selection from far north Queensland. Round fruit to 5cm in diameter. Heavy regular bearer.

Rollinia - Piconii

Sapodilla - Krasuey

Very sweet variety from Thailand, heavy cropper of small-medium sized fruit. Sapodillas are highly prized in Asia with their sweet brown sugar cinnamon flavoured fruit that look like potatoes.

Soursop - Grafted

This grafted selection was made from a tree cropping in a frost free region of Kyogle. Prefers a tropical climate but worth trying in marginal climates by the enthusiast fruit grower. Not suitable for temperate climates.

Sweetsop (Purple Sugar Apple)

This interesting tropical fruit has succulent segmented flesh that is creamy-white, delightfully fragrant and juicy. The taste is similar to custard-like taste. Delicious eaten raw (preferably chilled), in fruit salads, ice creams and drinks.

Allspice

Allspice takes its name from its aroma, which smells like a combination of spices, especially cinnamon, cloves, ginger and nutmeg. The evergreen tree that produces the allspice berries is indigenous to the rainforests of Central America.

Cinnamon Tree

This highly ornamental tree and the source of cinnamon spice. The spice itself is the bark that is peeled from the branches after 2 years. After scrapping the bark leave for a day so that the inner bark curls into cinnamon sticks as it dries.

Finger Lime - Tasty Green

The tasty Green is a long green skinned fruit with clear vesicles. A delicate but spikey rainforest tree that offers fruits with a distinctive citrus flavour to sweet or savoury dishes. The juicy cells, similar in appearance to caviar, are a delightful surprise in salad dressings.

Orange - Bergamot

The rind of this orange fruit is used in the fragrance industry. The juice can also be used as a substitute for lemon juice. The bergomot is a sour orange selection and the aromatic oil is extracted commercially in southern France

Citron

The fragrant fruits of the citron are highly variable in shape and texture. They can be oblong, obovoid, oval, rough or smooth. The candied peel is used in the food industry and is a common ingredient in fruit cakes, plum pudding, sweet rolls and candys. If fully ripen on the tree the fruits are very aromatic and yellow, they can be placed in a bowl to scent a room. Sensative to frost, the foliage and fruit can also be damaged by intense heat and drought.

Sapodilla - Tropical

A Singapore variety that is vigorous to 4m tall. Flavour is very sweet, slightly gritty though not unpleasant. Average weight 100 - 115gms. Sapodillas are highly prized in Asia with their sweet brown sugar cinnamon flavoured fruit that look like potatoes.

Orange - Cara Cara

Green Sapote - Grey

Sapodilla - BKD110

This variety originates from Singapore. It has attractive red brown flesh when ripe with a mild flavour, the flesh is slightly gritty like a pear. Fruits are oval and weigh 50-100 g. Sapodillas are highly prized in Asia with their sweet brown sugar cinnamon flavoured fruit that look like potatoes.

Mulberry - Angela

Very sweet hybrid selection of a white and black mulberry. Does have some seeds in fruit, so keep netted to avoid seed dispersal by birds next to native bush areas.

Pummelo - Nam Roi

A recently imported Pummelo from Vietnam, where it is a very popular seedless variety. Pummelos are similar to grapefruits, but larger and sweeter. Most adaptable citrus to tropical areas.

Jaboticaba - Grafted

Grafting enables the jaboticaba to fruit much earlier and also results in a more dwarf tree.

Apricot - Moorepark

A well recommended cultivar. One of the most popular home garden apricots because of its rich flavour. Excellent for fresh fruit, jam, drying, stewing and juice. Mid- to late season maturity

Mango - Keow Savoey

Considered the best of the green eating varieties in Thailand where it is prized for its crunchy flesh texture and nutty sweet flavour. It is mainly used as a green salad vegetable. When ripe it has a very soft, green/yellow, semi-translucent pulp with overripe flavours. Oblong dark green fruit weighing between 170 and 390 grams with a polyembryonic seed

Nectarine - Earliglo

A delicious, highly coloured yellow fleshed clingstone nectarine. Medium sized. Skin colour is glossy red over a golden-yellow ground colour. Good flavour with a firm, juicy flesh. Upright growing habit. Low chill, suitable for areas with limited winter chill. Early maturity.

Plum - Prune - d'Agen

Purple coloured oval-shaped fruit. Very sweet yellow flesh with a freestone. A prolific bearer, 'd'Agen' is excellent for fresh fruit and drying. Fruit should be fully mature to ensure maximum sugar content. Pollination , other prune cultivars or 'Coe's Golden Drop', 'Green Gage' plums.

Mandarin - Afourer Murcott

Finger Lime - Collette

Flavour is highly aromatic and has been rated as “superior” by Chefs. Fruit is highly ornamental, with its shiny black skin and as a cut fruit, as it has a dark lime green pulp. Displays well as a garnish, with the juice vesicles popping out on cutting and the fruit splitting open wide. Its wide shape facilitates scooping out the pulp with a teaspoon. Rind colour is black/purple at optimum maturity and pulp colour is a dark yellow/green. Mean fruit size is 90mm x 26mm. It is a mid to late season variety but bears fruit all year round.

Velvet Apple - Grafted

Also known as Mabola, is closely related to the persimmon. About the size of an apple, with mildly sweet flavored, somewhat mealy, flesh. The red coloured fruits are highly esteemed in some areas, but barely known in most parts of the world. Native to the Phillipines

Jakfruit - Tintenbar Gold

Yellow Mangosteen - Grafted Sweet

Black Sapote - Chocolate

This variety was selected by John Piconi at Newrybar. He describes it as excellent quality and texture. Closely related to the Persimmon this attractive glossy foliaged tree produces a fruit often called the 'Chocolate Pudding Fruit'. Delicious when eaten as a desert with cream and a touch of Rum or vanilla

Star Apple - Ricks Green

Rollinia - Sputnik

Mango - Pico

Finger Lime - Ricks Red

Purplish red skin, with Red flesh selecion. The juicy cells, similar in appearance to caviar, are a delightful surprise in salad dressings. A rainforest tree that naturally occurs as an understorey tree in SE Queensland and Northern NSW.

Finger Lime - Yellow

The yellow finger lime has a beautiful bright yellow skin and very large juice vesicles inside. The balls of juice bubble of of the skin when the ripe fruits are cut in half. Use in chutneys, jams, marmalades, savory sauces and refreshing drinks.

Finger Lime - Emma

The Emma finger lime is a very large black skinned fruit with vesicles that range from clear to a pinkish blush. It produces a heavy crop of fruits over a long period. The fruits can be frozen successfully without destroying the fruits flavour or texture on thawing, thus allowing us to have access to the fruits all year round.

Finger Lime - Cutting Grown

Cutting grown finger limes are perfect for rainforest regeneration projects and warmer regions where finger limes are native to. They are not as tolerant of the cold or heavy soils as the grafted varieties as they do not have the benefit of the rootstock. The do not produce the rootstock suckers and never need desuckering. They are a very bushy, thorny shrub and are the perfect nesting tree for small birds.

Phalsa

A large, scraggly shrub native to Asia produces small, orange-yellow flowers followed by fruits, 2cm in diameter produced in in open, branched clusters. The soft, fibrous flesh is greenish-white stained with purplish-red near the skin. The flavor is pleasantly acid, somewhat grape-like. The fruits are eaten fresh as dessert, are made into syrup, and extensively employed in the manufacture of soft drinks

Finger Lime - Sunshine Yellow

A small bright yellow finger lime with tasty large vesicles. A heavy cropping variety with attractive fruit.

Finger Lime - Wauchope

A dark skinned variety with purplish black skin, the juice vesicles range from clear to having a pinkish blush. Good flavour

Sapodilla - C55

Originating from Malasia, the variety C55 is a medium sized fruit. Excellent backyard variety with a light brown skin and a delicious sweet flavour. The size is similar to the Tropical sapodilla, averaging 60-70 grams. The flesh has a slightly gritty texture to it like a pear.

Angel Peach - High Chill

The Angel Peach is a new form of peach, which has donut shaped fruit. It is a very sweet white fleshed variety, which is more soft and juicy in texture compared with standard peaches. Performs best in temperate climates.

Carambola Starfruit - Maher

This Hawaiin variety has roundish fruit with light yellowish - white skin, white flesh, low acid content, sweet and crunchy, Carambolas are also called Star Fruit and are excellant eaten fresh or juiced.

Carambola Starfruit - Arkin

Popular commercial variety, very heavy cropper of uniform very sweet juicy firm flesh with few seeds. Fruit 100mm in length with small wings and bright yellow skin. Carambolas are also called Star Fruit and are excellent fresh or juiced.

Carambola Starfruit - Giant Sam

A very large fruited selection with sweet juicy flesh. The juicy transparent flesh has a citrus quality with a floral accent and is delicious eaten fresh, made into juice or into a delicious chutney

Plum Narabeen

Large, round fruit with deep pink to red skin over a yellow-green background and a heavy bloom. Flesh is creamy white. The tree is a heavy producing variety, the fruit are sweet, firm and juicy. Used for its fresh fruits, jams and stewing.

Apricot - Story (Early Moorepark)

Large, rich golden fruit with some red blush. Flesh is deep yellow and firm. Good flavour, excellent for jam, preserving and drying. This apricot is a 'Moorpark' strain, but matures about three weeks earlier.

Dwarf Apple - Gala

A juicy apple with a mild sweet flavour and crisp, creamy yellow flesh. Excellent for eating fresh, cutting into salads or adding to the kids lunch box. They are a thin skinned apple.

Nectarine - Necta Red

Firm yellow fleshed fruits. The fruits are early to mid season. A high chill variety that is suited to cooler climates.

Guava Yellow Cherry

This is the mildest and probably the sweetest guava of all. Fruits are 3cm in diameter yellow skinned with a sweet, aromatic, creamy flesh and numerous small seeds. Begins bearing when less than 1 meter high. Prolific bearer.

Brazilian Cherry

A highly ornamental shrub with spreading branches and aromatic foliage. The young bronze foliage turns a glossy deep green when mature. The delicate white flowers are followed within 3 weeks by maroon ribbed fruit.

Achiote - Bixa

Source of annato. Small tree produces spiky fruit containing dark red seeds that are used as a commercial dye. Tree is extremely beautiful in full flowering and fruiting. Can be grown in a container, prefers a frost free climate

Guava - Mexican Cream

Small to medium-small, roundish fruits. Skin light: yellow, slightly blushed with red. Flesh creamy white, thick, very sweet, fine-textured, excellent for dessert. Seed cavity small with relatively soft seeds. Tree upright.

Native Mulberry

The native mulberry produces small, sweet, white fruits that hold their seeds on the outside like a strawberry. It naturally occurs in various types of rainforest north from Lismore to far north Queensland and west to Arnhem land. The tree is highly attractive to birds and insects making it an ideal tree for both bush food plots and rainforest regeneration plantings. Trees are dioecious, having male and female flowers on separate trees.

Curry Tree

Fresh leaves from this tree are an indispensable ingredient in Indian cooking. The leaves are pretty much unknown in the West because they lose most of their flavor when dried. They have a distinct, spicy curry-like flavor and odor.

Bush Lemon Tree

This naturalized lemon grows wild in subtropical Australia. They are very hardy, have a thick skin with a true lemon flavour. Grows to about 4m in a sunny position. The skin makes a good zest for cooking.

Guava Hawaiian

A seedling of the Hawain Supreme commercial variety. Fruit is large, yellow skinned and pink fleshed fruit. Very hardy prolific cropper. Can be eaten fresh or juiced. Can be pruned to keep compact.

Sandpaper fig - Birds Eye

A outstanding selection of the native Sandpaper fig. Large, flavoursome, red fleshed fig. Heavy cropping and no splitting in wet weather. Ideal fig selection for wet coastal areas.

Guava - Strawberry

This guava, native to Brazil, is a hardy shrub or small tree. It has a smooth trunk and dark green, shiny, egg-shaped aromatic leaves. Strawberry guava flowers are white with numerous stamens and the edible red fruits are about the size of a golf ball. The flesh is sweet and strawberry flavoured. Frost hardy.

Peanut Butter Tree

A very attractive and hardy shrub bearing small orange/red fruit with a pasty texture and rich sweet flavour when fully ripe. Fruit ripens in late summer. Will tolerate light frosts.

Cascade Lilly PIlly - Syzygium luehmannii x wilsonii

This is a hybrid species of lilly pilly that looks similar to the powderpuff lilly pilly but it has pale pink flowers followed by yummy pale pink fruits. Excellent for Hedges

Cinnamon Myrtle

The leaves have a cinnamon-like aroma and flavour, and can be used as a spice in various dishes. This is a specific selection for its flavouring qualities, and is the actual clonal variant that inspired the name “cinnamon myrtle” in the 1980s. Other B.myrtifolia products marketed as cinnamon myrtle are other lower quality, and are not this particular variant, which has the high-end flavour and aroma qualities.

Aniseed Myrtle

This stunning rainforest tree has strong aniseed scented leaves that make a delicious refreshing aniseed tea. The leaves are often used for flavouring desserts, sauces and preserves.

Bay Tree

This handsome pyramid shaped tree makes a superb tub specimen, hedging plant or topiary sculpture due to its positive response to pruning. The leaves of the bay are used as the popular culinary seasoning used in all types of cooking.

Rose Apple

A very attractive tree producing 'rose petal' flavoured fruit 5cm in diameter for about 6 months of the year. The fruit are preceeded by large fluffy white flowers. Will bear in 3 - 5 years.

Lemon Myrtle

The leaves and flowers are used in cooking and as a refreshing tea. It is a spectacular ornamental tree due to both its appearance and the superb fragrance of its flowers and leaves. Occurs naturally throughout coastal Qld rainforests.

Noni Fruit

Also known as Indian Mulberry. Medium sized fruit with knobby yellow-green segments. Flesh is usually milky white, juicy, with a fetid odor. The noni has a long list of scientifically documented and undocumented medicinal benefits.

Riberry

The small leaved lilly pilly or riberry produces masses of red pear shaped fruit. Mature trees can yield up to 80kg. The fruit exhibits a juicy but slightly acidic clove-like finish reminiscent of cinnamon. It is a very popular ingredient in wildfood dishes. Its handsome purple-red growth makes this lilly pilly one of the favourites.

Guava - Thai White

Large greenish skinned Asian type with white flesh and few seeds. Mild flavour and very popular in Asian markets. Easy to grow in frost free climates, and can be a weed in some regions.

Cherry of Rio Grande

This beautiful small tree has very attractive dark glossy-green wax-like leaves and a peeling bark. The showy white flowers are followed by dark purple plum sized fruit.

Panama Berry

Fast growing tree bearing small red berries (1-2cm diameter) that are very sweet and aromatic. Attractive white strawberry like flowers. Use fresh or in jams.

Sea Grape

Attractive small spreading tree, with clusters of grape like fruit with a sweet acid flavour, eaten fresh or used to make an excellent jelly. High salt tolerance, excellent seaside plant. Male and female plants, cross pollination required.

Scrub cherry - Syzygium australe

The Brush Cherry is a common plant of coastal and highland rainforests. Known to reach up to 25m in its ideal habitat it is usually much smaller in cultivation. The leaves are opposite, rounded and bright, glossy green in colour. White flowers are followed by large, fleshy, red fruits in profusion. These are oval in shape and around 20 mm long with a large seed. The fruits are edible and are often made into jams.

Papayuelo

Attractive tall branching plant with purple leaves. Bears goose-egg size purple fruits. The flesh inside is eaten like passionfruit. Plants are either male or female.

Native Gardenia

An evergreen rainforest tree with attractive glossy foliage and highly perfumed, small, white, tubular flowers, in spring. They also produce a large, edible, yellow fruit. Ideal for large tubs, shade tree or somewhere the delicious scent can be enjoyed.

Para Guava

The acidic fruits of the para guava are delicious when made into drinks and desserts although they are too sour to be eaten out of hand for most of us. They are a medium sized fruit with translucent white-yellow flesh. Prefers a warm sub tropical location with high rainfall.

Lilly Pilly - Bluey

Cutting grown selection of the tasty and attractive Blue Lilly Pilly fruit. The delicate fruit is aromatic with a sweetish slightly gingery or turpentine flavour. Fruit is a distinctive blue colour.