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| Variety/Cultivar | Fruit Type | Fruit Description | Production Notes | Disease Susceptibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fantasia | Nectarine | Medium to large, rounded-oblong fruit with a bright red skin with a mottled blush over a bright yellow background colour. The flesh is yellow, firm and melting, with a really delicious flavour (we call these ones the 'mangoes of the south'). Freestone. | This is really an excellent yellow-flesh nectarine, we highly recommend it! | |
| Ferriana (Amal) | Apricot | Medium, bright orange with a red blush, firm orange flesh, good flavour. | Good cropper.Apricots need frost protection, particularly at flowering | Resistant to blossom blight. |
| Fiesta | Apple | Stripey dull red skin (usually on one side) with greeny-yellow background colour, some russet at stem end, tart flavour until properly ripe. Fruit stores quite well. | Similar to Cox's Orange Pippin, crops well. | Prone to sunburn. Fiesta trees can suffer from manganese toxicity, and do best in neutral pH soil. Leaves tend to look mottled, due to genetics not a symptom of disease or nutritional disorder. |
| Fireball | Apricot | Round, bright orange apricots with firm orange flesh, medium-sized. Sweet and juicy flavour. | Known as a prolific bearer. | Not prone to fruit cracking |
| Firebrite | Nectarine | Medium to large, rounded fruit, often asymmetric and with a tip. Red blush on fruit that's been exposed to the sun, with a yellow background colour. Yellow flesh, moderate firmness, only average flavour. | Cropping can be variable, depends on the season and district. Skin finish not always great. | |
| Flavor Giant | Apricot | Large, oblong fruit, light orange-yellow, skin can be a bit sour. Freestone. | Apricots need frost protection, particularly at blossom time. Can be a light cropper. | Apricots are generally susceptible to blossom blight. Prone to skin cracking in bad weather. |
| Flavorsum | Apple | Very resistant to black spot (apple scab) | ||
| Flavortop | Nectarine | Mottled red blush over a green-yellow background colour. Yellow flesh, firm, melting texture, freestone. Good flavour. | Vigorous, productive trees that are good croppers. Summer pruning will help to achieve better fruit colour. | Slightly susceptible to russet in less than favourable growing conditions. |
| Flavourcrest | Peach | Medium to large, reddish skin over yellow background, quite smooth skin. Freestone, good flavour, quite sweet. | Prone to splitstone under drought conditions. | |
| Florda Gem | Peach | |||
| Florda Prince | Peach | |||
| Flordagold | Peach | Large, mostly red fruit, yellow flesh with reasonable flavour, freestone. | Very heavy cropper, needs heavy thinning each year. Harvest time can vary depending on where it's grown. In low chill areas it ripens earlier. One of the few low chill cultivars that can be grown in high chill areas. | |
| Flordahome | Pear | Pyrus communis (European pear) | Moderately resistant to mites, resistant to fire blight. | |
| Fragar | Peach | Heritage white flesh peach, large fruit with pink to red skin over a greeny cream background. Soft, juicy, semi-freestone. Very sweet but with complex flavour especially in the skin. | ||
| Freedom | Apple | Can be prone to getting bitter rot in warm and humid conditions. |