Warm-climate fruit trees and shrubs suited to subtropical conditions.
Jujube
Ziziphus jujuba
Chinese date tree with small edible drupes that mature from green to brown and wrinkled like dates.
Davidson Plum
Davidsonia pruriens
Australian bush tucker tree with tart blue-black plum-like fruits suited to preserves and desserts.
Surinam Cherry
Eugenia uniflora
Glossy evergreen shrub producing bright ribbed cherry-like fruits multiple times through the year.
Tamarillo
Solanum betaceum
Semi-tropical fruiting tree producing egg-shaped red or yellow fruit with a unique tangy flavour.
Cherimoya
Annona cherimola
Peruvian custard apple suited to warm NZ sites with pruning and hand pollination support.
Passionfruit
Passiflora edulis
Edible passionfruit vine for warm sheltered NZ gardens.
Mountain Pawpaw
Carica pubescens
Mountain pawpaw type selected in New Zealand for sweet small fruit; useful raw or cooked.
Guava
Psidium guajava
Tropical fruit tree producing aromatic, flavourful guavas; requires warm frost-free conditions.
Avocado
Persea americana
Subtropical fruit tree producing rich, buttery fruit; requires warm, frost-free conditions.
Atemoya
Annona × atemoya
Hybrid of cherimoya and sugar apple grown for sweet richly flavoured fruit in warm frost-protected sites.
White Mulberry
Morus alba
Morus alba, known as white mulberry, common mulberry and silkworm mulberry, is a fast-growing, small to medium-sized mulberry tree which grows to 10–20 m (33–66 ft) tall. It is native to China and is widely cultivated and naturalized elsewhere.
Jabuticaba
Plinia cauliflora
Slow-growing trunk-fruiting evergreen with dark purple fruits; cold tolerant once established in sheltered sites.
Prickly Pear
Opuntia ficus-indica
Edible cactus grown for colourful fruits and nopales pads; requires local compliance where restricted.
Dragon Fruit
Selenicereus setaceus
Climbing cactus grown for red-fleshed dragon fruit; benefits from support and careful winter watering.
American Pawpaw
Asimina triloba
Deciduous small tree with tropical-flavoured fruit; needs more than one type for reliable pollination.
White Dragon Fruit
Selenicereus undatus
Selenicereus undatus, the white-fleshed pitahaya, is a species of the genus Selenicereus in the family Cactaceae and is the most cultivated species in the genus. It is used both as an ornamental vine and as a fruit crop, the pitahaya or dragon fruit.
Pomegranate
Punica granatum
Deciduous fruiting shrub or small tree with brilliant orange flowers and striking red fruit.
Persimmon
Diospyros kaki
The persimmon is the edible fruit of a number of species of trees in the genus Diospyros. The most widely cultivated of these is the Chinese, Korean, and Japanese kaki persimmon, Diospyros kaki.
Lilly Pilly
Eugenia ventenatii
Species entry for Eugenia ventenatii, grown as an ornamental garden plant.
Brazilian Cherry
Eugenia brasiliensis
Subtropical evergreen fruit tree also known as grumichama, producing dark red sweet cherry-flavoured fruit.
White Sapote
Casimiroa edulis
Subtropical fruit tree from Mexico producing creamy sweet fruit on broad long-lived trees; many cultivars benefit from cross-pollination.
Mulberry
Morus nigra
Deciduous tree producing sweet, flavourful black mulberries; one of the earliest fruiting trees.
