Fruit Tree Database

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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.