Fruit Plants &/or Trees – Advanced Directory: Plant Distributors

Plum – Santa Rosa Japanese Plum

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Vaccinium corymbosum ‘Blueray’ – Highbush blueberry – Swamp blueberry – Blueberry – Cranberry – Huckleberry –

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V. corymbosum ‘Blueray’ – Highbush blueberry – Swamp blueberry –This upright, dense, many branched, deciduous shrub with arching shoots from Eastern North America, grows 5-6’ feet tall and wide. It produces lance shaped, smooth or toothed edged, mid green leaves 1-3 ½” long turning scarlet in autumn. In late spring and early summer, it bears pendent, terminal racemes, to 2” long of cylindrical, white sometimes red tinted flowers, ½” long, they are followed by edible, sweet, spherical, white bloomed, blue-black berries, to ½” across. Prefers boggy soil.

Grow in acidic, peaty or sandy, moist but well drained soil in full sun or partial shade, some prefer boggy ground. Protect from the hottest summer sun.

zones 3-7

Vaccium Duke Highbush Blueberries

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Fragaria vesca – Woodland Strawberry – Strawberry –

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Fragaria – Strawberry –

There are about 12 species of stoloniferous perennial, in this genus. They occur in open woodland, hedgerows, and grassy places in the Northern Hemisphere and temperate areas of Chile. The leaves are 3 palmate and radical, with toothed leaflets. The white, sometimes pink flowers have numerous stamens and carpels, usually 5 rounded petals, and are borne in 2 to 10 flowered cymes, followed by succulent strawberries. Strawberries are grown mainly for their edible, fleshy fruit, some species and cultivars are useful as a groundcover. Grow in a herb garden, as border edging, or in a window box, container, hanging basket, or specially made “strawberry tower”.

Grow in fertile, moist but well drained, neutral to alkaline soil in full sun or light, dappled shade. Tolerant of acidic soils. Protect from wind.

Prone to leaf spot, powdery mildew, honey fungus, various fungal wilts, spider mites, aphids, vine weevil grubs, millipedes, botrytis mold, slugs, and birds.

F. vesca – Woodland Strawberry – Prior to the cultivation of strawberries, which began in the 16^th century, this was the species gathered from European woodlands. It is a spreading perennial with white flowers and grows to 12″ tall, its red fruit are larger than those of the alpine strawberry.

Zones 4-10

Fragaria moschata – Hautboy – Hautois – Strawberry –

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Fragaria – Strawberry –

Grow in fertile, moist but well drained, neutral to alkaline soil in full sun or light, dappled shade. Tolerant of acidic soils. Protect from wind.

Prone to leaf spot, powdery mildew, honey fungus, various fungal wilts, spider mites, aphids, vine weevil grubs, millipedes, botrytis mold, slugs, and birds.

F. moschata – Hautboy – Hautois – This European strawberry makes few runners. It grows to about 12″ tall and has leathery, wrinkled leaves with silky undersides. As the botanic name suggests, the fruit are musk-scented. They are pinkish red with a persistent calyx. The seed are grouped more densely towards the tips of the fruits.

Zones 4-10

Fragaria chiloensis – Sand Strawberry – Strawberry –

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Fragaria – Strawberry –

Grow in fertile, moist but well drained, neutral to alkaline soil in full sun or light, dappled shade. Tolerant of acidic soils. Protect from wind.

Prone to leaf spot, powdery mildew, honey fungus, various fungal wilts, spider mites, aphids, vine weevil grubs, millipedes, botrytis mold, slugs, and birds.

F. chiloensis – Sand Strawberry – This species grows wild in coastal North and South America and is one of the parents of modern strawberries. It spreads by runner in dense tufted, the lower leaves forming rosettes. It reaches a height of 12″ tall and spreads to 18″ wide. It produces 2″ long, obovate, trifoliate leaves are a lustrous deep green, and hairy underneath.

Zones 4-10

Fragaria x ananassa – Garden Strawberry – Strawberry

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Fragaria – Strawberry –

Grow in fertile, moist but well drained, neutral to alkaline soil in full sun or light, dappled shade. Tolerant of acidic soils. Protect from wind.

Prone to leaf spot, powdery mildew, honey fungus, various fungal wilts, spider mites, aphids, vine weevil grubs, millipedes, botrytis mold, slugs, and birds.

F. x ananassa – Garden Strawberry – Among the most successful fruit crops for the Gardner, found throughout the Northern Hemisphere, it grows 9″ tall a with an indefinite spread. It produces ovate leaflets that are glaucous above and white beneath and edible fruit, from early summer onward, up to 2″ long. Grow as a ground cover, in a vegetable garden or container.

Zones 4-8

Diospyros khaki ‘Wright’s Favorite’ – Chinese Persimmon – Japanese Persimmon – Khaki – Japanese Date Plum – Persimmon – Ebony –

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Diospyros – Persimmon – Ebony –

There are about 475 species of deciduous or evergreen trees and shrubs, in this genus. They occur in forest in tropical, subtropical, and warm temperate regions worldwide especially in Asia and America. They are grown for their attractive habit, their bold, alternate, smooth, lance shaped to broadly ovate, simple, often glossy (sometimes heart shaped bases), which are colorful in autumn, and their fleshy, pear like, edible fruit. On previous years wood it bears bell or urn shaped, male and female flowers are usually borne on separate plants, and flowers have a rolled back petals and a leaf like calyx. In cool temperate climates, the species make attractive specimen tree, but most need long warm summers to fruit well. Timber and fruit is of economic importance.

With such a large and diverse genus it is difficult to generalize growing requirements. They are frost hardy to frost tender and generally like deep, fertile, moist but well drained loamy soil in full sun, preferably sheltered from cold, drying winds, and late frosts.

Prone to fruit rot, wood rot, anthranose, Acremonium wilt, powdery mildew, and a variety of fungal spots, and blights are common.

D. khaki ‘Wright’s Favorite’ – Chinese Persimmon – Japanese Persimmon – Khaki – Japanese Date Plum – This spreading, deciduous tree has long been cultivated in China and Japan grows 20-30′ feet tall and 22′ feet wide. It produces oval, glossy, dark green leaves, to 8″ long, which turn yellow to orange-red and purple in autumn. In summer it bears small, bell shaped, pale cream flowers, to ½” across. This female plant bears abundant edible, conical to spherical yellow to orange very sweet fruit, to 3″ across, without the aid of a male.

Zones 7-9

Diospyros khaki ‘Tanenashi’ – Chinese Persimmon – Japanese Persimmon – Khaki – Japanese Date Plum – Persimmon – Ebony –

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Diospyros – Persimmon – Ebony –

Prone to fruit rot, wood rot, anthranose, Acremonium wilt, powdery mildew, and a variety of fungal spots, and blights are common.

D. khaki ‘Tanenashi’ – Chinese Persimmon – Japanese Persimmon – Khaki – Japanese Date Plum – This spreading, deciduous tree has long been cultivated in China and Japan grows 20-30′ feet tall and 22′ feet wide. It produces oval, glossy, dark green leaves, to 8″ long, which turn yellow to orange-red and purple in autumn. In summer it bears small, bell shaped, pale cream flowers, to ½” across. This female bears a heavy crop edible, conical to spherical yellow to orange fruit, to 3″ across, without the aid of a male.

Zones 7-9

Diospyros khaki ‘Tamopan’ – Chinese Persimmon – Japanese Persimmon – Khaki – Japanese Date Plum – Persimmon – Ebony –

plant-admin — Sat, 29 Aug 2020 05:18:00 +0000

Diospyros – Persimmon – Ebony –

Prone to fruit rot, wood rot, anthranose, Acremonium wilt, powdery mildew, and a variety of fungal spots, and blights are common.

D. khaki ‘Tamopan’ – Chinese Persimmon – Japanese Persimmon – Khaki – Japanese Date Plum – This spreading, deciduous tree has long been cultivated in China and Japan grows 20-30′ feet tall and 22′ feet wide. It produces oval, glossy, dark green leaves, to 8″ long, which turn yellow to orange-red and purple in autumn. In summer it bears small, bell shaped, pale cream flowers, to ½” across. This female bears abundant edible, conical to spherical yellow to orange fruit, to 3″ across, without the aid of a male.

Zones 7-9