Fruit Tree Database

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Variety/Cultivar	Fruit Type	Fruit Description	Production Notes	Disease Susceptibility
Abas (Bullock's Seedling)	Apple	Medium sized, bright red apple with a darker red stripe with a light blush over a green-yellow background colour, creamy white crisp flesh. Good quality, very sweet and crunchy eating apple, good size.	Strong biennial bearer, needs heavy thinning. Moderately vigorous, spreading tree. Tip bearing.	Susceptible to mouldy core, Moderate to high resistance to black spot (apple scab) so suits climates with high rainfall, not particularly prone to woolly aphid or powdery mildew
Abate Fetel (Abbe Fetele)	Pear	Pyrus communis (European pear). Large, very elongated fruit, golden yellow skin with some russet in patches, may get a red blush. Fairly fine texture, melting and juicy with good flavour.	A medium vigorous tree.	Moderately susceptiblel to mites, susceptible to fire blight.
Adam's Pearmain	Apple		Partial spur and partial tip bearer
Adore	Apple		Spur-bearing
Airport 69	Apple			Moderate resistance to black spot
Akane	Apple	Medium size, bright red fruit with short stems. Very white, crisp, juicy flesh with good slightly acidic flavour. Fruit ripens evenly and hangs well on tree, can be picked over a few weeks.Only stores for 3-4 weeks when picked.	Not very vigorous tree. Spur bearing.	High to moderate resistance to apple scab/black spot, moderate resistance to powdery mildew. Has a physiological disorder of leaf spotting and dieback of laterals.
Albatross	Peach	White flesh peach
Alexander	apple	Yellow skinned apple	Spur bearing. Fruit tends to go a bit waxy if left to get overripe on the tree	Moderately resistant to black spot (apple scab)
Alexandra	Peach	Dark red skin with creamy background colour, white flesh. Good flavour, freestone.	Has a tendency to split stones.Fair cropper.
Alexis	Apple		Tip bearing
Amber Jewel	Plum	Japanese plum with dark purple skin with a bright yellow background colour. Amber yellow flesh. Tear-drop shaped. Very sweet, firm flesh, fruit sweetens early but then hangs well on the tree for a long time. Flesh remains firm even when ripe.	A small piece commonly splits from the bottom of the pip inside the fruit, posing a slight hazard when eating the fruit.	Can be vulnerable to brown rot in a high rainfall season due to high sugar content.
Ambrosia	Apple		Moderate frost hardiness.
Angela	Cherry	Medium to large depending on crop load. Very dark red cherry, very good flavour.	Very productive.
Angeleno	Plum, Japanese-type	Medium size, dark purple skin over a red ground colour, amber flesh. Colours well before ripe. Good flavour, nice and sweet if allowed to ripen properly on tree. Stores well, semi-clingstone.
Angelina	Plum	Small European plum, oval, dark purple skin with a heavy bloom, green flesh that becomes amber when ripe. Very sweet, freestone. Fruit is small to medium sized.	Popular plum, used for jam, plum wine, distilling, plum cakes and dumplings and eating. Fruit hangs reasonably well, but can blow off in a wind if nearly ripe.