Fruit Tree Database

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Variety/Cultivar	Fruit Type	Fruit Description	Production Notes	Disease Susceptibility
Divine	Apple		Spur-bearing
Divinity	Apricot	Small to medium, slightly oblong fruit, apricot colour with dull red blush. Dark apricot flesh, good sweet flavour with slightly acid skin, clingstone.	Apricots need frost protection, particularly at blossom time. Willowy tree that spread out. Cropping variable, with yield dropping as tree ages.	Apricots are generally susceptible to blossom blight. Susceptible to shot hole and cracking.
Donsworth	Plum	Japanese blood plum, large, round, green skin that becomes purple when very ripe. Flesh is light red, very sour until ripe, then sweet. Clingstone.	Can be very light cropper if inadequate pollination.	Moderately resistant to bacterial spot.
Dorsett Golden	Apple	Yellow-green, flushed with red-orange. Taste a little like Golden Delicious.	Grow in USDA zones 5 to 9.	Susceptible to Black spot, can also be susceptible to apple leaf spots like Alternaria leaf spot or fungal gummosis
Double Jewel	Peach	A red skinned peach, with a golden yellow background colour. The flesh is yellow and juicy with a sweet, well-balanced flavour.	Beautiful, double-pink blossom.	All peach and nectarine varieties are vulnerable to Leaf curl, and a number of fungal diseases.
Dougherty	Apple	Medium sized fruit with white flesh that has a greenish tinge. The apples are very sweet and have a spicy flavour. They are greenish-yellow coloured with a red blush (the photo depicts the red cultivar called 'Red Dougherty'. Some russeting.	Tip bearer	It has a good resistance to many diseases.
Dr Jules Guyot	Pear	Pyrus communis (European pear)		Resistant to mites, moderately resistant to black spot (pear scab), moderately susceptible to pear blast (Pseudomonas syringae), susceptible to fire blight.
Duchess of Oldenburg	Apple			Very resistant to black spot (apple scab)
Durado	Plum			Very susceptible to bacterial spot
Eagle Point Star	Apple	Fruit is medium, round oblate shape, with dark crimson-red skin that has obvious white lenticels. One noticeable feature is that when the fruit is cut open, it has white flesh with a red star in the middle. The fruit tastes more like a crabapple than a co	The leaves are noticeably red with a dusty hue, mistakenly making the tree appear as if it has a fungal infection.
Earl Victoria	Apple		Spur bearing.
Earlicot	Apricot	Medium to large, orange with a red blush, good flavour, freestone. Fairly sour apricot, and look ripe before sweetness and flavour have developed. Be patient.	Apricots need frost protection, particularly at blossom time.	Fruit has tendency to cracking and deformities, either if the tree dries out or if conditions are too wet (and pretty much everything else in between!). Apricots are generally susceptible to blossom blight.
Earliglo	Nectarine	A rounded medium sized nectarine which requires detailed thinning. Dark red skin over a golden-yellow ground colour with firm and juicy yellow flesh and good flavour. Clingstone, normally not prone to splitstone.	Low chill nectarine with colourful skin and flesh. Vigorous, upright tree that normally has a heavy crop. Currently under evaluation in Australia.	Normally not prone to splitstone.
Earliqueen	Plum	Japanese, small, round, bright red plum with yellow flesh. Fair flavour, semi-clingstone.	Difficult to get good crops.	Susceptible to bacterial spot
Earliril	Apricot	Medium size, oblong fruit, orange-yellow, slightly acidic. Freestone.Skin is slightly bitter and tough, flesh can be a little dry.Average flavour, acidic until properly ripe.	Apricots need frost protection, particularly at blossom time.	Apricots are generally susceptible to blossom blight.