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Ripe and ready to eat, these Wampees are a tasty treat on a summers day!

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Wampee

Clausena lansium
This subtropical fruit tree is native to China where the fruit is highly regarded. The yellow skinned fruit grows in grape-like clusters. The flesh is slightly acid and pleasantly aromatic. Seedling selection of the popular Guy Sam variety.
Other Names: Clausena wampi, wampi, wampee

$14.75 ($14.75-$19.90 choose a size)

Buy 2+ @$14.75ea usually:$19.90ea

Specifications of Wampee

Preferred Climate Tropical, SubtropicalLearn About Climate Zones

Grown From SeedlingLearn About Propagation Methods

Max Height (when in the ground with good conditions) 2-5m

Plants required to Pollinate 1 (Self Pollinating)Learn about Pollination

Can it Handle Frosts? Yes

Amount of leaves in Winter? All Leaves (Evergreen)

Water Requirements Moderate Watering

Time to Fruit/Flower/Harvest 4-5 Years

Sun or Shade Full (Sun:80%-100%)

Preferred Soil Type Good Drainage

Soil pH Neutral (6.6-7.3pH)

Fruiting/Harvest Months February, March

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Wampee - Guy Sam

$49.00 ($49.00-$79.00 choose a size)

This grafted variety has a sweet tangy aromatic flavour. Wampees are a handsome foliage evergreen tree grown for Summer ripe fruit with grape like flesh that hang in bunches. When grown on its own the fruit is seedless. Excellent tree for the subtropics and can be kept under 3 metres with pruning.

Dwarf Persimmon - Fuyu (NA)

$79.00 ($79.00-$79.00 choose a size)

Fuyu is a semi-dwarf variety, well suited to growing in small backyards and can be kept to 2m with pruning. The fruit is large and flat, orange-red in colour with a sweet, mild flavour. Great eaten crunchy but just luscious when left to go soft. Besides producing delicious fruit, Persimmons are highly ornamental with their beautiful autumn foliage. Non astringent, so can be eaten when still hard. When young, protect from hot afternoon sun, and when dormant, from wet conditions. Seedless when grown on their own. If cross pollinating with another variety they can have seeds in the flesh as shown in the display picture.

Kakadu Plum - Grafted

$120.00

Grafted onto more cool tolerant rootstock, experimentally. Most parts of the tree are used as medicine by traditional custodians, including leaves. It is a tall slender tree to 10m with creamy flower spikes in early summer. Small yellow green olive-sized, plum-like fruits ripening in autumn. Have very high Vitamin C content, can be eaten raw or cooked. Flavour is sour with an astringent aftertaste. Traditionally used as a thirst quencher and snack. Widespread over the northern tropical woodlands. It also is used in the seafood industry to improve shelflife of prawns. Fruit contains oxalic acid so consume in moderation.

Plum 2 Way - Flavour Supreme/Mariposa Better2Gether

$99.00 ($99.00-$109.00 choose a size)

Better2Gether (TM). Pluot x Plum. Mariposa - Mid-season. A popular blood plum with large, heart shaped fruit. Excellent sweet flavour and very dark red, juicy flesh. Sweeter, larger and softer than 'Satsuma'. Used for fresh fruit, juice, jam and stewing. Suitable for small to medium gardens. Flavor Supreme - Mid-season. Pluot Flavour Supreme interspecific plum (meaning plum/apricot hybrid) is one of a new generation of traditionally bred plums with a bright, very sweet flavour. Flesh is pinkish-red and as fruit matures deepens to a darker red.

Mulberry - Pakistan

$119.00 ($119.00-$129.00 choose a size)

Large, elongated, dark red to black fruit that is super sweet with berry flavours. A real stand out in size. Mid season ripening on a large tree suited to big backyards. The tree is female and produces no seeds in its fruit. Pruning hard after fruiting will produce another flush of fruit in summer and also keep the tree a more manageable size.

Star Apple

$29.00 ($4.90-$59.00 choose a size)

Sometimes known as Cainito is native to the West Indies where it is a very popular fruit. Fruit can be purple or green skinned. When cut in half there is an attractive star pattern. The flesh is sweet and tastes very smooth and aromatic. A very attractive tropical tree, leaves green above and gold underneath. Not suitable for temperate climates.

Wampee Reviews & Tips

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david
★★★★★ 3y ago

CRAIGIEBURN, VIC, Australia

Wampee

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Amanda
★★★★ 6y ago

LESCHENAULT, WA, Australia

I love the Guy Sam fruits - they are so moreish. Have had trouble getting the Yeem Pay to grow here. I have several seedling plants now, to see what they produce. If the Guy Sam fruits were bigger they could be so popular. Weighting the branches down ...

Glennis1
★★ 13y ago

MANLY WEST, QLD, Australia

Height 1 mts (18/01/2012)Height 1.3mts (20/11/2012)Height 2.0 mts (29/11/2017)Beautiful sweet fruit , better tasting than a lychee (25/01/2013)I left the fruit on the tree until the skin started to turn a slight brown color .  

Russell Drinkwater
14y ago

Eidsvold, QLD

Wampi

This tree is much more frost hardy than it is given credit for. It will tolerate -5degrees easily if it has surrounding trees. Give it a go. Good soil and water is needed. It will fruit in a couple of years. Net it for best results at fruiting.

rustynutz
★★★★ 14y ago

EIDSVOLD, QLD, Australia

Frost tolerant and very hardy. Not to large and different tasting fruit.

Emma1
★★★★ 14y ago

Bardon, Qld, Australia

Never tried fruit but review of the fruit in Subtropical Gardening Magazine sounded promising. Since planting in the ground in March 2010 growth has been rapid and dense, the folliage alone is quite attractive. By ground I mean sugarcane mulch and a ha...

rupert
★★★★★ 14y ago

Coledale, NSW, Australia

Only had one harvest so far, looking forward to the next..  Absolutely delicious. Small easily peeled fruit, Juicy as a lychee.  Refreshing slightly citrus flavour.  Have watered it while it established. No water since.  Fed it occasionally with so...

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JohnMc1
★★★★ 15y ago

WALLARAH, NSW, Australia

 The Wampi/Wampee is an attractive, evergreen, slender tree and has been described as the finest fruit of Siam (Thailand). It is also a highly valued backyard tree in southern China and southeast Asia. It is classed as a subtropical / tropical fruit, ...

Carla1
★★★★★ 15y ago

EULEILAH, QLD, Australia

small fruit developing Nov09

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