Fruit
A division of the Camden Park catalogues that is not clearly defined. All plants producing edible fruits are included but most are trees. Fruit will be progressively added to the Hortus.
Malus domestica ‘Wood Rick’
I have found no description of this apple in the contemporary literature.
Malus domestica Borkh.
The Apple is a hardy deciduous tree with simple, ovate leaves, to 12cm long. The pink or white 5-petalled flowers are produced in clusters in spring together with the leaves. To 12m. [RHSD, Hortus and other sources].
Malus domestica ‘Downton Pippin’
‘The Downton Golden Pippin is a most abundant bearer, and the fruit extremely well adapted for market; it is rather larger than the common Golden Pippin; skin nearly smooth; yellow, sprinkled with numerous specks; flesh yellowish, crisp, with a brisk, rich, sub-acid juice; specific gravity 10.79. Ripe in October and November, and will keep until Christmas’. Listed under Autumn Fruit. [FCM p.40/1845]. The fruit is fit for the press in the middle of November but will keep until the spring. Free-growing and highly productive tree. Developed by Thomas Knight. [HP].
Mespilus germanica L.
Fully-hardy, spreading tree or large shrub with alternate, lance-shaped leaves, to 15cm long, and white, sometimes pink-tinged flowers, to 5cm across, in spring and summer, followed by edible, fleshy brown fruit, to 5cm or more across. To 6m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Morus nigra L.
Fully hardy, rounded tree with ovate, sometimes lobed leaves, to 12cm long, and cylindrical, sweet fruit, to 3cm long, ripening to dark purple in summer. To 12m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Olea europaea L.
Frost-hardy, slow-growing, evergreen tree, with opposite, leathery, elliptic leaves, to 8cm long, silvery beneath, and axillary panicles of tiny, fragrant, creamy white flowers in summer, followed by edible, ovoid green fruit, ripening to black. To 10m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Opuntia leucotricha DC.
A true species with white flowers. [JD]. ‘Often 3 to 5 meters high, with a large top; trunk as well as the older joints covered with long white bristles; joints oblong to orbicular, 1 to 2 cm. long, pubescent; areoles closely set, the upper part filled with yellow glochids, the lower part at first with only I to 3 weak white spines; flowers, including ovary, 4 to 5 cm. long; petals yellow, broad; ovary with numerous areoles, the upper ones bearing long, bristly glochids (1 cm. long); style red; stigma-lobes green; fruit variable, 4 to 6 cm. long, white or red, the rind not easily coming off from the pulp, aromatic, edible.’ [Britton & Rose – The Cactaceae vol.I, p. 174/1919].
Paliurus spina-christi Mill.
Frost hardy, bushy, deciduous shrub with slender, thorny shoots, ovate, glossy leaves, to 4cm long, and small cymes of tiny, star-shaped yellow flowers in summer, followed by woody fruit. To 4m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Passiflora edulis Sims
Frost-tender, vigorous, woody climber with 3-lobed, toothed leaves, to 20cm long, and bowl-shaped white flowers in summer, to 7cm across, with wavy, purple-zoned white coronas, and ovoid yellow to purple fruit. To 5m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Passiflora maliformis L.
Perennial climber with entire leaves fragrant, white, red and violet flowers, followed by yellowish-green edible fruit. [RHSD, Hortus].
Passiflora quadrangularis L.
Strong climber with ovate, un-lobed leaves, the flowers greenish outside, pinkish inside, corona white with bands of blue and reddish-purple. [RHSD, Hortus].
Pereskia aculeata Mill.
Uncactus-like shrubby perennial, becoming scandent, with long branches, short-stemmed, lance-shaped leaves, with 2 or 3 leaves at the base, and white to pink flowers followed by pinkish, edible fruit. Often used as a root-stock for grafting Zygocactus and Schlumbergera. [RHSD, Hortus].
Phoenix dactylifera L.
Frost tender tall palm with a columnar trunk, leaves to 6m long, composed of many linear leaflets, and long-stalked panicles, to 2m long, of bowl-shaped, cream flowers in spring and summer, followed by the characteristic, edible fruits. To 30m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Phyllanthus emblica L.
A much-branched, frost tender deciduous shrub or small tree with light, elegant foliage, flushed pink when young. To 15m. It produces very acid, pectin-rich fruit which are a good source of carbohydrates, vitamin C and minerals. [RHSD, Hortus].
Podocarpus spinulosus (Smith) R.Br. ex Mirbel
Frost-tender evergreen shrub or small tree with rigid, pointed, linear leaves, to 6cm long, and blue-black fruit, to 1.2cm across. To 1m. [RHSD, Hortus, FNSW, Beadle].
