MCMGA - JANUARY 27, 2018 FRUIT AND NUT TREE SALE Common Name Description Artichoke 'Emerald' Apple 'Anna' Apple 'Dorsett Golden' Avocado 'Joey' Avocado 'Mexicola Grande' Blueberry 'Emerald' Blueberry 'Sweet Crisp' Blueberry 'Windsor' Blueberry 'Powder Blue' Blueberry 'Premier' Blueberry 'Southern Bell' Blueberry 'Gulf Coast' Blackberry 'Kiowa' Blackberry 'Ouachita' Thornless and highly productive. Tall at 4-5 ft with silvery foliage. Bred in Israel. Popular variety for warm climates. Sweet, crisp and flavorful. 100-300 Chill Hours One of few apple varieties suitable for hot climates. Early variety with medium sized fruit and sweet flavor. 100-200 Chill Hours Cold hardy Mexican variety.skin is purple-black and egg-shaped fruit has excellent flavor. Heavy producer. Has glossy,near black, thin, easy to peel skin. Tree is fast growing and very cold tolerant. Southern Highbush. Mild sweet flavor, abundant crop. Low chill hours Southern Highbush. Vigorous grower with medium to large berries Southern Highbush. Produces a large crop and semi spreading growth habit Rabbiteye. Excellent for hot humid climates. Large berries are light blue with a soft dusting Rabbiteye. A superb tasting fruit with a little less production. Ripens early to mid season Southern Highbush. High quality berries early in the season. Low chill hours Southern Highbush. Ripens early, producing medium-sized berries. Great quality. Large fruited, thorny cultivar from The University of Arkansas. Top performer for Texas conditions Thornless. Fruit size similar to Arapaho. Heavy yields and firm berries. Blackberry 'Arapaho' Blackberry 'Natchez' Thornless. Medium sized, firm, high quality fruit Thornless. Large great tasting berries. Good production and growth with low chilling requirements Chestnut 'Dunstan' Fig 'Celeste' Resistant to chestnut blight. Heavy corps of sweet tastingnuts. Great fruit tree for our area. Pest and disease resistant. Vigorous tree. Closed Eye. Produces on last year's wood.
Fig 'LSU Gold' Fig 'LSU Purple ' Large yellow fig with lightred to pink pulp. Open eye. Great for fresh eating and preserving Produces large purple fruit with excellent flavor on new growth. Closed eye. High sugar content. Grape, Muscadine 'Darlene' Female variety with pinkish/bronze large berries. Grape, Muscadine 'Granny Val' Grape, Muscadine 'Fry Seedless' Grape, Muscadine 'Ison' Grape, Muscadine 'Late Fry' Grape, Table 'Victoria Red' Grapefruit 'Rio Red' Jujube 'Li' Jujube 'Sugar Cane' Kumquat 'Mewia' Lemon 'Meyer' Lemon 'Varigated Spanish' Mandarin 'Owari Satsuma' Mandarin 'Kishu' Orange 'Republic of Texas' Orange 'Cara Cara' Mayhaw Self fertile. Bronze color berries. Late maturing pollinator. Female variety. Popular for its large berry size and good flavor. Mid season. Self fertile. Berry color black and very large. Excellent productivity. Self fertile. Bronze color berries. High sugar content and good vine vigor. University of Arkansas/Texas A&M/Tarkington Vineyard. Disease resistant, vigor and high productivity in coastal TX Introduced in Texas. Fruit has excellent red color, with few or no seeds. Loves long hot summers. Also called "Chinese date." Fruit is yellow-green, large and round. Loves the summer heat. Fruit ripens mid August. Pingpong ball sized fruit. Very sweet with crunchy flesh. Dark red brown color when ripe. Fruit is large, round, very sweet. Eat skin and all. Tree is a heavy bearer and very ornamental. Grows to 8 ft tall. Small tree with continuous crops from August - January. Grows to about 10ft tall. Fruit has striped rind with various shades of green and yelowish green. Tart lemon taste and juicy. Very good flavor. Great production. Hardly any seeds. Slow growing but very productive. Good for container growing. Fruit is small but very sweet, juicy and seedless. Matures early. Very cold tolerant. A sweet flavorful orange. Documented back to 1847 near Angleton, TX. Believed to have developed as a cross between the Washington navel and the Brazilian Bahia navel orange. Very sweet Known for making the world's best jelly. Typically native to swamps but can grow in well drained soils.
Mexican Plum Mulberry, Pakistan Fruiting Nectaplum 'Spice Zee' Nectarine 'Snow Queen' Nectarine 'Atomic Red' Olive 'Arbequina' Onion set ' 1015Y Onion set 'Southern Belle Red' Onion set 'Texas Early White' PawPaw Pecan 'Oconee' Pecan 'Pawnee' Pecan 'Melrose' Pecan 'Elliott' Pecan 'Sumner' Peach 'Sam Houston' Peach 'Mid-Pride' Peach 'Red Baron' Beautiful, single trunked, spring flowering small tree. Grows to 25 ft tall. Fruit up tp 2-3" long. Medium size tree but can reach up to 70 ft. Grows well in moist soils. Self-fruitful and very productive. Hybrid cross between a Plum and a Nectarine. One can detect both Plum and Nectarine traits in the fruit. 200-300 chill hours Clingstone fruit.early to mid-june. Extremely high-quality. Delicious flavor. Does well in mild winter climates Fruiting and Flowering nectarine.exquisite red double flower. Fruit is medium to large and simply delicious. Fast growing olive tree produces delicious fruit and oil. Will grow 15-20 ft tall. Self fertile and a good pollinator. Texas famous onion. Very sweet and called 1015 in honor of the October 15 planting date for the seed. Sets are ready toplant now. Red globe and sweet. Very healthy due to high concentration of quercetins (anti-oxidant compound). Great flavor and easy to grow. Disease resistant. Harvast 105 days from transplants. Host to the zebra swallowtail butterfly. Small tree up tp 25 ft. Protect from direct sunlight first 2 years. Type I. Produces large nuts of outstanding quality andflavor. Adequate disease resistant. Early pollen release. Type I. Early maturing variety. Large nut and high kernel percentage. Scab resistant. Early pollen release Type II. Prolific producer of medium large nuts. Scab resistant. Female flowers pollen released late. Type II. Considered one of the most disease-resistant varieties. Small, prolific nut of excellent quality. Scab resistant. Type II. Early bearing, large, good quality. Suited for close space planting. Female flowers pollen released late. Developed by Texas A&M. Self-fertile, freestone with a small pit. Sweet yellow flesh, ripens in June. 500 chill hours Good tree vigor with good quality fruit. Yellow-orange fruit with distinctive red striping. 300-400 chill hours Beautiful pinkish-red, semidouble flowers, and high quality fruit. Self-fruitful. Semifreestone. 500-600 chill hours
Peach 'Tex King' Peach 'Tex Star' Peach 'Tropic Snow' Peach miniature 'Bonanza' Pear 'Biscamp' Pear 'Kieffer' Pear 'Southern King' Pear Asian 'Hosui' Pear Asian 'Shinseiki' Pear Asian 'Tennosui' Pear Asian 'Shinko' Persimmon ' Fuyu (Jiro)' Persimmon 'Fuyu Giant' Plum 'Catalina' Plum 'Mariposa' Plum 'Methley' Plum 'Santa Rosa' Raspberry ' ItSaul Summer' Texas A&M introduction. Large, firm yellow flesh clingstone peach. Ripens May to June. 450 chill hours Semifreestone variety. Medium sized fruit with yellow, red blushed skin. Great for canning, baking and eating fresh. 450 chill hours One of the best home orchard peaches for mild winter climates. Large white flesh, superb flavor. Freestone. 200 chill hours High head.popular yellow freestone, 5-6 ft tree. Large fruit is sweet and low in acid. Low chilling requirements. Self-fruitful. When soft the fruit resembles and tastes like a bartlett pear. Developed by Dr. O'Rouke from LSU for insect and disease resistance. Self fruitful. Large yellow fruit good for canning. Stores well. Chill hours 300-400 A high quality pear popular in Houston. Good for fresh eating or canning. Cross between Hosui Asian and Tennessee European. Chill hours 300-350 Self fertile. Large, juicy, sweet, crisp like an apple fruit. Heavy producer. 400-500 chill hours Self fertile. Easy to grow. Keeps well. Bright yelow skin. Fruit ripens in July. 600-800 chill hours Cross between Hosui Asian Pear and Tennessee European Pear. Yellow fruit with slight red blush Late ripening. Golden brown russeted skin. Juicy and sweet. 600-800 chill hours Apple persimmon. Medium size, flat shape, still hard when ripe, non-astringent. Larger, not as flat as Jiro. Crunchy when ripe. Sweet, flavorful, non-astringent. Black plum that stays firm when fully ripe. Better fruit set when planted with a pollenizer like Santa Rosa. Low chill requirement. Greenish bronze, with burgundy red flesh, small pit, nearly freestone. 200-300 chill hours Self-fertile. Small, reddish purple fruit. Burgundy flesh color. Excellent quality. 200 chill hours Fairly self-fertile and good polinator for other plum trees. Ripens in June. Purplish red fruit. A raspberry that can grow in South Texas. Thisrambling raspberry fruits all summer long.
Sassafras Strawberry 'Camarosa' Tomato 'Big Beef' Camarosa Strawberry 1015Y Onion Sets Hybrid Southern Belle Red Onion Bluebonnets Raspberry 'Itsaul Summer' Beautiful native tree that grows anywhere from 30-60 ft. Known for its fragrant parts and distinctive leaf shape. Early short day cultivar. Produces large fruit throughoutthe season. It is self pollinating and grows best in mild winter areas. Indeterminate type with 10-12 oz globe shaped fruit. Ripens early (70 days). AAS winner Early season, short day cultivar that produces over an extended period. Fruit is large, firm and flat. Texas famous onion. Large straw-yellow, deep globe shaped bulbs. Excellent for salads, grilling, cooking. Blushing red throughout. Sweet flavor, flattened globe shaped bulb. More disease resistant than other red short day var. State flower of Texas. Full sun. Likes well drained soils that are alkaline. The 'Itsaul Summer' everbearing raspberry bears fruit all summer long on thornless sprawling vines