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| Variety/Cultivar | Fruit Type | Fruit Description | Production Notes | Disease Susceptibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Queensland Red Ace | Plum | Susceptible to bacterial spot | ||
| Radiance | Plum | Moderately resistant to bacterial spot. | ||
| Rainier | Cherry | Pale red skin over a creamy yellow background, extremely sweet with honey tones when fully ripe. | Bruises easily, needs careful handling. Very reliable cropper, and fruit hangs very well. | Prone to cracking. |
| Red Beaut | Plum | Susceptible to bacterial spot. | ||
| Red Delicious | Apple | There are many different cultivars including Richared, Starking, Hi-Early, Starkrimson, Super Chief, Redchief, Oregon Spur and the Tasag series. Medium sized fruit, red apple with greenish-white background. Very crisp, juicy flesh that is sweet and delici | Highly productive, very vigorous tree. Most cultivars of Red Delicious are spur-bearing, though 'Lalla' is semi-spur bearing. | Can be susceptible to mouldy core, susceptible to black spot (apple scab), moderately resistant to powdery mildew, highly resistant to cedar apple rust |
| Red Face | Pear | Pyrus communis (European pear). Cocktail pear | Moderately resistant to mites. | |
| Red Fuji (and other Fuji strains) | Apple | Dusky pink skin over a green background, very firm, crisp flesh. Fujis have a distinctive, deeply sweet flavour with very little acid, tough skin. Excellent storage. | Takes time to settle down, then mature trees crop well. Requires thinning to get good size and break biennial cropping cycle. Vigorous, spreading, willowy growth, good branching. Does well in USDA zones 6 to 9 | Moderately resistant to apple scab/black spot, resistant to powdery mildew, susceptible to mouldy core, prone to water core if picked late, but this doesn't affect storage. Susceptible to scald. Susceptible to fireblight. Can be susceptible to bitter pit |
| Red Haven | Peach | Sweet, yellow-flesh, freestone. Moderate acidity, good flavour and juiciness, keeps well. | Heavy producer | |
| Red Zee | Nectarine | Medium, slightly oblong shaped fruit, often with a pronounced tip. Bright red over a yellow background, great, strong flavour, yellow flesh, juicy, clingstone. | ||
| Redchief | Apple | Spur bearing | ||
| Redfree | Apple | Glossy bright red skin, creamy white flesh, juicy, good flavour. | Stores well for an early apple, seems to be well adapted to lots of different climate types | Immune to black spot (apple scab), moderate resistance to powdery mildew, some resistance to European red mite |
| Redgold | Nectarine | Medium to large fruit. Bright red skin over a golden yellow background colour. Rounded to slightly oblong fruit, very attractive. Yellow flesh, firm, juicy, good flavour. Freestone. | Reasonably good productivity. | Can suffer fruit cracking in some climatic conditions. |
| Redlove | Apple | A medium-sized red skinned apple that has unique, bright red flesh. Tastes quite tart and sweet, similar in flavour to Granny Smith. | The new growth in spring has dark reddish leaves which gradually turn green as the leaves mature. | Naturally resistant to black spot and powdery mildew. Handles frost quite well. |
| Redtop | Peach | Yellow flesh, medium to large peach, mainly red skin with yellow background. Good flavour, sweet and slightly acid. Freestone. | ||
| Regal Gala | Apple | Red skin with no stripe, creamy white background colour, creamy white flesh, juicy but can go soft, flavour not as good as Gala |