Avocado - Hass

Most commonly grown

avocado.  Smooth flesh with a high oil content and

nutty, rich taste. Like most avocados, it prefers loose, loamy soil. Its extensive root system needs room (about 6 m between trees) and trees can grow to 10 m in height.

Code PS-AVHA          $45.00

Avocado - Reed 

Unlike the Hass, the skin remains green when ripe, yielding to gentle pressure. Fruit is an easy peeler with a medium seed, ready in summer through early Autumn.

Code PS-AVRD          $25.00

Medlar 

Ornamental smaller tree, its ancient fruit has a distinctive rough brown skin.  Hardy, easy-growing, it's bountiful after just three years in the ground. Flesh is known for its compatability with wine, making a delectable fool or equally beautiful jam.

Code PS- MD              $25.00

Passionfuit - Big Black

An attractive and hardy

black variety with

juicy orange flesh that has

a sweet palate and

aroma. Like all passionfruit vines, the black variety needs good drainage

Code PS-PAB            $17.00

Passionfruit - Yellow 

Fast-growing, the yellow variety fruits in one to three years. Commercial growers train the vines to lines upwards of 20 m high, but home orchadists can have more prolific, pest-resistant vines by allowing them to climb a tall tree.

Code PS-PAY            $17.00

Persimmon - Fuyu 

Most common commercial variety with large, deep-orange, non-astringent fruit that's both lush and sweet. Eat like an apple. Late maturing, trees can grow to 7 m in height, but are beautiful and will produce for many years to come.

Code PS-PFU              $40.00

Quince - Giant of Gascony            

Early bearing and self-pollinating, the large golden fruit has a rich aroma and distinct spicy flavour. An easy grower, it's an excellent cooker, too, and a popular fruit for the culinary orchardist.

Code PS-QGG           $30.00

Quince - Smyrna

Popular selection with Turkish origins, the large, oblong fruit is pale yellow and aromatic. Chefs of old baked it with quail, favouring the fruits palate and aroma with fowl. Tree bears early and is a vigorous grower.

Code PS-QSY            $30.00

Quince - Taihape

Prolific, lemon-coloured fruit when mature, this one is a fixture at Taihape's Brown Sugar Cafe. Resistant to fungal nasties such as pear scab and fleck, it's ideal for the organic orchadist. Grows to 4m in height and, like its quince kin, appreciates good drainage and sun.

Code PS-QT               $30.00

Tamarillo - Yellow

Introduced from Asia in the late 1800's, the tamarillo has since become uniquely Kiwi, this yellow variety being one of the predecessors to our modern fruit. Creamy golden flesh and a rich flavour.

Code PS-TAMY          $13.50