Fruit Tree Database

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Variety/Cultivar	Fruit Type	Fruit Description	Production Notes	Disease Susceptibility
Brabrant Bellefleur	Apple	Bellefleur means "beautiful flower", so this tree will be a beautiful addition to your garden in spring. This variety is mostly known as a cooker, but can be quite eaten fresh as well. Fruit is firm, red striped, crisp, sweet, and aromatic. Stores very well. The apples are often described as ‘knobby’, but are quite lovely to look at, with burgundy coloured stripes over a yellow background..	Spur bearer. Trees are moderately vigorous, and spreading.	Very resistant to black spot (apple scab)
Braeburn	Apple	Conical shaped mainly red apples with a stripe, and yellow background colour	Semi-spur bearing and partial tip-bearing.	Susceptible to black spot (apple scab)
Bramley's Seedling	Apple	Large, flat, irregular or rectangular shaped apple. They have greenish yellow skin with a red flush and stripes. Flesh is firm and yellowish, very acid, with a tangy lemon flavour.	USDA zones 5-7. Good keeper, cooks to a creamy fluff. Tree is very large and vigorous, spreading. Mainly spur-bearing, but partial tip bearer on young laterals.
Briggs Red May	Peach	Old variety, freestone, rich white flesh, sweet and juicy. One of the best early peach varieties.
Britegold	Apple			Resistant to Fireblight, Black Spot (apple scab) and Powdery mildew. Susceptible to Cedar Apple Rust and leaf spots such as Alternaria and fungal gummosis
Brooks	Cherry
Brown Snout	Apple	Small, conical apples. Skin is quite smooth and slightly waxy, slight flush. Some natural russeting around the non-stem end. Flesh is white, soft, and dry. Taste is slightly astringent.	Spur bearer. Medium-sized, upright tree, prolific bearer. Stores OK for about 3 weeks.	Susceptible to black spot (apple scab).
Bulida	Apricot	Medium to large, roundish fruit, pale orange skin that marks easily. Flesh is pale orange, fairly firm, freestone, slightly acid flavour.	Apricots need frost protection, particularly at blossom time.	Apricots are generally susceptible to blossom blight. Suffers from pit burn in hot weather.
Bulmer's Norman	Apple	Fruit is medium-large, yellow-green and tender.	Tree is a good cropper if given cross-pollination, though tends to be biennial.
Burgsdorf	Cherry	Small, very dark red cherry with long stem, beautiful flavour but goes soft.	Crops very heavily, tends to have small fruit as a result.
Calville Blanc d'Hiver	Apple	A greenish/yellow apple that can develop a red blush, notable for their lumpy appearance.	Spur bearer.	Moderately resistant to black spot.
Canadian Harmony	Peach		Grows in zones 5-8
Caselin	Apricot	Medium, pale orange with a red blush. Pale orange flesh, good flavour, freestone.	Apricots need frost protection, particularly at blossom time.	Apricots are generally susceptible to blossom blight. Can get cracking on the fruit.
Casselman	Plum			Moderately susceptible to bacterial spot.
Castlebrite	Apricot	Medium to large early apricot, orange skin with sight red blush. Good eating, sweet & not too acid, stones have some adherence. Firm texture. Not a very strongly flavoured apricot.	Productive, good cropper, fruit hangs well. Apricots generally need frost protection, especially at blossom. Look ripe before they are. Wait until some fruit is falling to be sure they are ripe before you start picking.	Castlebrite are particularly vulnerable to blossom blight, and the fruit can be prone to brown rot..