New Jujube Cultivars
This season we will have:
GA 866, a large ovoid-shaped fruit about 5 cm long, and with a very high sugar content.
Mid to late-season ripening.
Good for both fresh eating and drying.
Honey Jar, small but with a very juicy crunchy taste.
Very early-season ripening.
Excellent for both fresh eating and drying.
Hulu, a very unusual jujube which looks like a miniature gourd with a pointed tip. A sweet, juicy and crunchy taste.
Mid-season ripening.
Excellent for fresh eating.
Millstone, a similar gourd-like shape like Hulu, but with a more flat, rounded bottom. A sweet, juicy and crunchy taste.
Mid-season ripening.
Excellent for fresh eating.
Porterville, like Chico in shape and taste, but larger and with lobes like a pumpkin.
Early to mid-season ripening.
Good for both fresh eating and drying.
Russian #2, from southern Russia. A small, compact tree well-suited to smaller areas. The fruit is small like Honey Jar but slightly more elongated. Sweet, firm and crisp.
Early to mid-season ripening.
Good fresh eating.
Sugar Cane, a medium-sized, sweet and crunchy fruit.
Mid-season ripening.
Excellent for both fresh eating and drying.
Tiger Tooth Early, a long wide oval shape more incisor-like than Silverhill, which is molar-shaped and also known as Tigertooth. (I call ‘Silverhill’ ‘Tigertooth Late’ so as to avoid confusion with ‘Tiger Tooth Early’ —note too the difference in spelling of ‘Tiger Tooth’ vs ‘Tigertooth’.)
Quite sweet, similar to Honey Jar.
Early-season ripening.
Excellent for both fresh eating and drying.
These, along with the regulars (Chico, Li, etc) can all be ordered for bare-rooted winter delivery here.
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BSc(Hons), U.Syd. - double major in biochemistry and microbiology, with honours in microbiology
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