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| Variety/Cultivar | Fruit Type | Fruit Description | Production Notes | Disease Susceptibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josephine (Josephine de Malines) | pear | Pyrus communis (European pear). Turbinate shape, small to medium, greeny yellow skin with a slight russet. Fruit stays green even when ripe. The flesh is fine granted, juicy with excellent flavour. | A moderately vigorous tree with a spreading habit. Fruit stores well, even out of the refrigerator. Trees are slow to bear but when they settle down tend to have heavy crops. | Susceptible to black spot and pear blast (Pseudomonas syringae), moderately resistant to mites. |
| Julie | Peach | A medium-sized white semi-clingstone with a pinkish blush over a cream background. Great flavour but needs to be handled gently because flesh bruises easily. Flesh can go intensely pink as the fruit ripens. | Julie can have a tough skin, and tend to ripen from the inside out. You need to try one off the tree to determine ripeness. | |
| June Brite | Nectarine | Also known as "fiesta red" this rounded, small to medium sized nectarine has a dark red skin over a yellow ground colour with firm and juicy flesh. Good flavour. Clingstone. | A colourful and tasty nectarine. Reliable tree that normally has a good crop. | |
| Junecrest | Peach | Yellow, juicy flesh, red skin, largeish fruit. Good flavour, freestone. | Consistent cropper. | |
| Katy | Apricot | Medium to large egg-shaped apricot, slightly oblong, light orange with a red blush, can get marking on the skin. Freestone, firm, juicy orange flesh with wonderful intense flavour. | Apricots need frost protection, particularly at blossom time. Tend to be sweet and getting ripe even when they still look a bit green, will come off easily in the hand when they are getting ripe enough to pick. | Apricots are generally susceptible to blossom blight. |
| Kelsey | Plum | Slightly resistant to bacterial spot. | ||
| Kester Cooker | Apple | Moderately resistant to black spot | ||
| Kidd's Orange Red | Apple | Excellent medium-sized eating apple. Reddish orange skin with a yellow background, some russeting. Flesh is creamy white, juicy, sweet, and crisp. Very delicious. | Tree is moderately vigorous, spreading and productive. | Moderately susceptible to black spot (apple scab) |
| King Billy | Plum | European, small, prune shape plum, dark purple skin with greeny-yellow flesh. Slight acid flavour, clingstone. | Shy bearer, main use is as a polliniser for President. Similar to Angelina but larger and worse flavour. | |
| King David | Apple | The fruit is small to medium in size, round to oblate in shape. The skin is usually orangey red through to a dark black colour, with a green background that turns yellow. The skin has small lenticels (pores) that look dark on the lighter patches of skin, | Thought to be relatively resistant to disease, but moderately susceptible to black spot (apple scab) | |
| King of Pippins | Apple | Spur bearer | ||
| Kingston Black (Black Taunton) | apple | Very small, dark red cider apple. Valued for its bitter qualities, it's well-known as a cider apple. | Spur bearer. Tree is medium sized, spreading. Can be hard to grow as it can be a poor cropper. | Quite prone to black spot |
| Kordia | Cherry | Medium to large, very dark crimson fruit (almost black). Fleshy, sweet, tasty. | Reliable cropper. | High resistance to rain cracking. Resistant to canker. |
| Kosui | Pear | |||
| Kristin | Cherry | Medium cherry, dark red, good flavour, small pip. | Not a reliable cropper - possibly suited to high chill areas to get consistent cropping. | Some crack resistance. |