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Illustrated List: Unusual Fruit

Medlar : Nottingham

Medlar : Nottingham

Considered the best flavoured Medlar, producing a heavy crop of medium sized fruits with a pleasant caramel flavour. Excellent eaten with wine, port and cheese, although are more commonly used to make into a Medlar Cheese.

Medlars have a flat topped weeping habit with large leathery leaves and large white flowers in spring, followed by large russetty rose hip like fruits and reddish-orange autumn leaves.

Propagated onto 'Quince A' rootstock to produce a tree with moderate vigour. Trees are self fertile and will fruit within three years.

Description Price  
1 tree
Despatch: Mid Feb 2010 To Mid Apr 2010
£22.99
Paw Paw

Paw Paw

Fruit. New

Producing delicious, tropical-tasting fruits, the North American Paw Paw or Red Indian Banana is one of the few fruits to grow well in dappled shade. Ideal added to a fruiting hedge, a single tree will produce 40-50 fruits with a flavour similar to that of mango, 7.5cm (3in) long in a kidney shape with a large stone inside. Long lanceolate foliage.

Description Price  
1 plant
Despatch: Mid Feb 2010 To Mid Apr 2010
£19.99
Quince : Lescovaeks

Quince : Lescovaeks

Fruit. New

Attractive with beautiful round, silver leaves and large, green-pink flowers that produce large fruits. Quince Lescovaeks cannot be eaten raw, but makes excellent jellies or enhances the flavour of an apple pie by adding a few slices before cooking.

Propagated onto 'Quince Adams' rootstock to produce a tree with moderate vigour and promote fruiting at an early age.

Description Price  
1 tree
Despatch: Mid Feb 2010 To Mid Apr 2010
£27.99
Quince : Vranja

Quince : Vranja

An attractive tree with beautiful rounded silver leaves and large green-pink flowers, that will produce large pear shaped fruits capable of growing up to 1lb in weight.

The fruits cannot be eaten raw but make excellent jellies, or you can enhance the flavour of apple pies by adding a few slices before cooking.

Propagated onto 'Quince A' rootstock to produce a tree with moderate vigour and promote fruiting at an early age. Trees are self fertile and will fruit within three years.

Description Price  
1 tree
Despatch: Mid Feb 2010 To Mid Apr 2010
£19.99
 
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