Helenvale Fruit Trees (Popular)
Helenvale Fruit Trees and the most popular plants Australians buy for mail order. With fruit trees you should consider climate suitability.
Palm - Salak Malay
$46.95 ($29.00-$46.95 choose a size)
Superior tasting variety, Malay Salak are delicious fruit covered in snake-skin like scales emerging from the base of these palm trees. Fruit is crisp, and apple like in flavour. They are a distinctly spiny, tropical, short-stemmed clumping palm with very long leaves. Preferring humid, moist conditions and shade when young, mimicking its tropical forest habitat. Trees are dioecious, so will need a male and female growing near each other for fruit harvest. They prefer slightly acid well draining soil and should flower withing 3-5 years in ideal conditions.
Achiote - Bixa
$19.75 ($4.95-$19.75 choose a size)
Also known as Annatto or the Lipstick tree, originates from South America and has spread in popularity to many parts of Asia. It is very popular in Philippine cooking. Grows and a dense small tree or shrub. The heart shaped fruits are brown or reddish brown at maturity, and are covered with short stiff hairs. When fully mature the fruits split open exposing the numerous dark red seeds. While the fruit itself is not edible, the orange-red pulp that covers the seed is used as a commercial food colouring and dye (similar to turmeric). The achiote dye is prepared by stirring the seeds in water, and is popular in South America and Asia to colour rice, desserts, butter, cheese, and many other foods. In the Philippine Islands the seeds are ground and used as a condiment. Tree is extremely beautiful in full flowering and fruiting. Can be grown in a container, prefers a frost-free climate.
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