Fruit Tree Database

Fruit Type

Apricot

Variety/Cultivar

Trevatt

Fruit Description

Medium fruit, roundish and slightly flattened. Pale lemon colour with greenish tinge. Fruit ripens from the inside, very sweet to eat even when the fruit still looks a bit green on the outside. Become very juicy when ripe, can get mushy when overripe.

Common Uses

Trevatt are very soft textured, and make fantastic jam, but lose their shape immediately when cooked, so not great for bottling (though have traditionally been a bottling favourite for Australian families).

Origin

Mildura, Victoria, Austrlaia, early 1900s

Pollination

Self-fertile

Chill Hours

Low/medium

Blossom Time

Mid to late season

Harvest Time

+2 days Rival, late December in Harcourt, central Vic

Production Notes

Apricots need frost protection, particularly at blossom time. revatt ripens from the inside, so will often be surprisingly sweet and juicy on the inside even when the outside is still quite a pale orange, and by the time the outside of the fruit is a darker orange, it’s getting positively squashy and over-ripe.

Disease Susceptibility

Apricots are generally susceptible to blossom blight. Suffers from pit burn in hot weather.

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