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Pre Purchase Fruit Trees
A few months before a plant is ready for sale it will appear below in this pre purchase list. By pre-purchasing you reserve the plant so you will not miss out. Only instant payment methods are accepted for pre purchase.
Pre Order Fruit Trees and Plants
Goji Berry - Vine
$29.90
This variety of Goji berry is similar to Lycium barbarum the shrub, but it's growth habit is more vine-like and heat tolerant. The Goji Berry is native to the Himalayas and inner Mongolia where it has been used for thousands of years and is held in high regard. They have a juicy taste comparable to cranberries or tangy plums. The fruit of L. chinense is as tasty as that of L. barbarum however the skin has a stronger flavour. The Goji Berry vine is a sprawling shrubby vine that lives for 5-8 years. The fruits are small and shiny red with oval berries about 1cm long with lots of small edible seeds in the center. Plants prefer a sheltered sunny spot with good drainage and a trellis wall or structure to climb up and scramble over.
Phalsa
$19.90
Shrub native to Asia produces small, orange-yellow flowers followed by fruits, 1cm in diameter produced in in open, branched clusters. The soft, fibrous flesh is greenish-white stained with purplish-red near the skin. The flavour 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. After fruiting prune to keep to an attractive shrub to 2mts high.Phalsa during transit may drop some leaves. It is a hardy plant and with acclimatisation in its new location it will respond well and bounce back. It can take 3 weeks for plants to recover from transit stress.
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Sapodilla - Seedling
$19.90
Flavour is very sweet like brown-sugar with a slightly gritty texture like a pear, contains several shiny, black seeds. Very hardy, slow growing, subtropical fruit tree. Seedlings take longer to start fruiting and fruit size and quality will be variable. Seedling trees are much hardier and more adaptable to marginal climates. Trees can be forced into flowering by cincturing when large enough.
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Ginkgo - Grafted Male
$49.00
Used extensively as a landscape tree due to its picturesque, unusual shaped crown and autumn coloured foliage. Both Male and female trees are required for cross pollination.
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Ginkgo - Grafted Female
$49.00
This tree is used extensively as a landscape tree due to its picturesque, unusual shaped crown and autumn coloured foliage. The trees become large making them ideal shade trees. Both male and female tree are needed to produce nuts. The fruits are produced on the female trees and have an unpleasant aroma.
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Ginkgo
$39.00
A tall growing deciduous tree with maidenhair like foliage. The foliage colours golden yellow in Autumn. The female tree bears a plum-like cone with an ill smelling flesh, but the kernel is edible and sweet. Slow growing and requires good soil and plenty of water during summer. We are not able to determine which seedlings are male or female until they flower so that is why we recommend 3 plants to be assured you will get at list one female.
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Brush Pepperbush
$17.90
The peppery flavoured red to maroon berries are edible and the leaves have a peppery flavour when crushed. Brush Pepperbush is a shrub 1-3m in size with reddish stems. The trees grow in the wetter forests of the coast and ranges, from Southern NSW to Northern Queensland. Both male and female flowers are borne on the one plant in clusters. The tree is not commercially grown like Tasmannia lanceolata but is great addition to a diverse bush food planting.
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Jaboticaba - Cambuca
$69.00
Tropical tree with orange-yellow fruits 4-6cm size forming on the trunk. Taste is sweet and tangy with hints of mango and papaya, a smooth texture and a single seed. Can be slow growing in cool areas with commensurate time to fruiting in these areas. Trees vary in size from 4-8m depending on conditions, preferring the tropical climate of its Amazonian rainforest home range. Likes deep rich soils and some shade especially when young. Reportedly can tolerate some cold conditions, but not for long. Attractive small tree with its peeling bark and cauliflorous fruit.
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Mundoo
$49.00
The soft yellow flesh has a butter like consistency and pleasant sweet-acid flavour. This Garcinia species is indigenous to Borneo, Thailand and Philippines and is cultivated as a fruit tree in South East Asia and has been introduced to Tropical America. It thrives in moist shady tropical environments and is not fastidious of soil types. It can be eaten fresh or preserved and served in sherberts. It can be also cooked and candied. The seeds have a pleasant taste.
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Pale Vanilla Lily
$19.90
Native strap-leaved plant with vanilla scented flowers. Produces edible tubers, tasting sweet when young and can be eaten raw or roasted. Wide ranging across south eastern Australia thriving in well drained sandy or volcanic soils. Tubers are 3-4cm long and form 15cm or so underground. Flowers occur in spring and are also edible. Dies back in late summer, re emerging in Autumn. Mass plant for best effect.
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Pencil Yam
$19.75
Slender vine with distinctive arrowhead to heartshaped leaves. Tubers are edible, when young as a raw food and when mature, better cooked. Tubers are slender, pencil thickness and can be buried quite deep, to 30cm. The distinctive seed pods of the female vine are an attractive feature. Will tolerate the deep shade of a forest floor but also full sun. Try growing them in a deep pot to make harvest easier
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Strawberry - Melba PBR
$7.90
Large, sweet, flavourful fruit with a strong fragrance. Precocious producer with few runners, producing fruit throughout the year, when temperatures are between 20-30C. This is known as a day neutral variety. Australian bred. Holds up to rain quite well.
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Natal Plum
$17.90
An ornamental shrub with large white star shaped fragrant flowers. The large edible plum has a soft pinkish flesh. Fruits are delicious eaten whole including their skin and seeds. The flesh is a sweet cranberry flavour and can be used fresh in desserts, ice cream, yogurt, cakes and sauces. Fruits preserve well as jams, jelly's and chutneys and can be frozen, dried or bottled. With its sharp thorns this shrub makes an effective and almost impenetrable hedge. It also makes a beautiful bonsai specimen. Trees are tolerant of salt and wind and do not have invasive root systems. Natal plum fruits are best left until they are fully ripe to eat, as the latex in under ripe fruit is acrid and an irritant and may cause reactions in some people.
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Blueberry - Climax
$19.90
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.
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Rhubarb - Sydney Crimson
$19.90
A delicious red stemmed variety that is excellent for pies, tarts and jams. Grows very well over a range of climates. 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. Plant crowns in rich well drained soil with growing bud just above soil.
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