fruit trees planted today

Here's details of the fruit trees we bought from Forbidden Fruits Nursery and planted today

1. Wampi : Clausena lansium

tall slender tree with large lobed bright green leaves that are aromatic when crushed. Sprays of white flowers that develop into brown fruits that have a grape like greenish flesh which is high in Vitamin C

2. Star Apple : Chrysophyllum cainito

round fruit with shiny green or purple skin. The flesh is white, tinged with purple and divided into segments by shiny dark brown seeds. Flesh is soft sweet and juicy

3. Hill Gooseberry : Rhodomyrtus tomentosa

Evergreen tree to 3m with masses fo pink flowers. Produces many small sweet purple/green edible berries.

4. Soursop: Annona muricata

Semideciduous tree. Large fruits with slightly acidic white juicy pulp

5. Natal Plum Carissa macrocarpa

Bush to 2.5m perfumed flowers and delicious red fruit

6. Cherry of the Rio Grande: Eugenia aggregata

Small tree with glossy green and waxy leaves to 3-4 m White flowers followed by deep purple plum sized fruit that has a sweet cherry flavour

7. Quince Cydinia oblonga (smyrna variety)

Deciduous tree with large green leaves and large pale yellow fruit. As we are ex Kiwis, we like this fruit from our childhood days, and have sometimes managed to buy it in Brisbane from growers in the Stanthorpe area. The fruit needs to be cooked.

8. Thornless Blackberry : Rubis canadensis

Planted in a specially prepared berry patch beside our raspberry and (yet to be planted) blueberry

also planted was a Pomegranate :Punica granatium

Some of these trees will be fruit fly prone and will need netting when the time arrives for that.

Incidentally our tropical peach is bursting out in blossom and some fruit is already developing, so I will be netting that in the next week or so after most of the blossom has dropped and the fruit has set.