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WAIMEA FEIJOAS
We have selected the best performing varieties available to us. Other varieties are available but we have found that they are inferior to the varieties listed below.
FEIJOAS - Exclusive Varieties
We have a small number of trees available for interested growers to trial these exceptional, new varieties.
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Anatoki (R12**)
Very promising early variety. Good sized, smooth fruit with sweet, mild flavour. Compact habit. |
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Kaiteri (17B17**)
Prolific early cropper with large smooth fruit on a vigorous tree.
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Sweethart (R9**)
Exceptionally sweet and large very early fruit.
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FEIJOAS - Licensed and Free Varieties
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Apollo
Large, long sweet fruit with excellent eating qualities. Skin light green and rough. Relatively upright tree with strong, very vigorous shoot growth. Forms a well-branched framework that does not bent excessively with fruit weight. Early - mid season. |
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Kakapo
Medium to large size fruit with good shelf life and stores well. Mild, sweet refreshing taste with wide appeal. Fruit shape is blocky oval. Mid season cultivar. Easy picking due to naturally good, open tree habit. |
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Opal Star*
Classic shaped, smooth, dark green skinned fruit medium to large in size. Flesh is smooth and juicy and very aromatic. One of our reliable mid season maturing varieties. Grows naturally into a strong, compact tree requiring little pruning. Heavy cropping. Stores well. Some fruit thinning maybe necessary. |
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Pounamu
Early season selection with smooth, dark green (greenstone), attractive, medium size fruit. Flesh is moderately smooth, juicy and with pleasant flavour. Stores well. Upright to spreading habit with moderate vigour. |
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Triumph
This old favourite produces large oval shaped fruit, firm and rough skinned with excellent flavour. Flesh is slightly gritty, soft, and juicy and extends towards the centre of the fruit. Heavy late cropping. Stores and handles well. Upright and strongly vigorous grower especially when young. |
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Unique
The only reliably self-fertile selection to date. Normally the first Feijoa of the season to fruit. Light green, medium to large fruit with rough skins. Flesh smooth, soft, juicy and mildly aromatic. Excellent eating. Prolific producer from an early age. Storage life best if fruit harvested a little early. Trees upright and spreading with moderately weak branches. Frequent heading back of branches and thinning of fruit recommended. |
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WikiTMTu (Anilvinkoru*)
Compact grower producing very large fruit (up to 300 grams) in mid to late season. Meaty flesh with good taste and smooth texture. Stores and handles well. Ideal selection for high density plantings. Reported as self fertile in some parts of New Zealand. |
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Protected by Plant Variety Rights (PVR)
Provisionally protected by Plant Variety Rights (PVR)
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