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| Variety/Cultivar | Fruit Type | Fruit Description | Production Notes | Disease Susceptibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunrise Gulf | Plum | |||
| Sunset | Apple | Spur bearer. | ||
| Sunsnow | Nectarine | |||
| Super Gold | Apricot | Medium, round fruit with light orange melting flesh. Good flavour, freestone. | Heavy cropper, requires early, heavy thinning. | Apricots are generally susceptible to blossom blight.. |
| Supreme | Cherry | Large, dark red shiny cherry, heart shaped, short stems, good flavour. | Highly susceptible to rain cracking. Uneven ripening, long harvest period. | Susceptible to bacterial canker. |
| Sweet Coppin | Apple | Medium to large, greenish-yellow with an orangey pink flush. | Medium to large tree with a tendency to be bush. | |
| Sweet Scarlet | Peach | Large dark red peach, yellow flesh, good flavour with little acid. | ||
| Sweetheart | Cherry | Large round dark red cherry, good flavour. | Good cropper | Low susceptibility to cracking |
| Sylvia | Cherry | Medium to large cherry with short thick stem, dark red, good flavour. Small pip. | Very dense leaf cover provides good protection for fruit. | Relatively low percentage of splitting in wet weather. |
| Tamarillo | Other | Also called a "tree tomato", tamarillo is in the nightshade family. The flesh is red with plentiful small seeds, and is sweet/tangy, tasting like a cross between a tomato and a kiwifruit (or guava or passionfruit, depending on who you ask). The skin is red or yellow, bitter, and not eaten. | Subtropical but thrives in temperate areas if protected from frost. Trees are very fast growing and can reach 2-3 metres tall in 18months to 2 years. They are also short-lived and survive only 7 - 12 years. | |
| Tardif de Bordaneil | Apricot | Medium to large fruit with a pronounced seam, greenish yellow colour with a light red flush. Skin is a bit thick. Flesh is orange, juicy, coarse textured, melting. Semi-clingstone. | Reported to be tolerant to rust disease. | |
| Tasman Pride | Apple | Fruit is medium sized, mostly bright red over a cream background. Flesh is crisp and flavour is subacid to sweet. | Tree is vigorous, upright and spreading. Spur bearing with some tip-bearing | Resistant to powdery mildew and woolly aphid. |
| Tasty Gold | Nectarine | Rounded fruit, medium to large, dark red flesh over a yellow background colour. Yellow flesh, firm and juicy with good flavour. Semi-clingstone. | ||
| Tasty Zee | Peach | Bright red skin over a rich cream background, sweet white flesh. Sweet, delicious, juicy, eat-in-the-bath peaches. Freestone, must be handled gently because they bruise easily. | ||
| Tatura 204 | Peach | Medium to large, golden yellow skin with firm, juicy, sweet flesh. Excellent for bottling because retains shape well (and sweet enough to bottle with little or no sugar! | Heavy cropper, requires early, heavy thinning. Vigorous, upright tree. |