Angel High Chill:
The Angel Peach is a new form of peach, which has doughnut shaped fruit. It is a very sweet white fleshed variety, which is more soft and juicy in texture compared with standard peaches. Performs best in temperate climates.
Angel Subtropical:
The Angel Subtropical Peach is a new form of peach, which has doughnut shaped fruit. It is a very sweet yellow fleshed variety, which is more soft and juicy in texture compared with standard peaches. Will crop in warm subtropical climates. Requires approximately 150 hours chill. Suitable from Rockhampton south to the subtropics and coastal NSW.
Anzac:
Old fashioned white flesh peach, very juicy with good flavour.
Aztec Gold:
Aztec Gold has a yellow flesh and requires up to 300 hours of chill. It has a good resistance to bacterial black spot. A large firm fleshed peach that grows well in the subtropics. Resistant to bacterial black spot. Aztec Gold has yellow flesh and red / yellow skin.
Beale:
A dessert cultivar
Bendigo Beauty:
Ripening in the first week of the year, fruit cream and red skinned, white juicy flesh, very good cropper, precocious (potentially a decent crop in the second year, with the proper cultural conditions), fruit gradually ripens over a number of weeks, not coming all at once.
Blackburn Elberta:
This peach is the pollinator for J.H.Hale’s Million Dollar Peach – which is about the only peach that really needs a pollinator, larger and earlier than Elberta, flavour excellent, good grower and heavy bearer
Briggs Red May:
Old variety, freestone, rich yellow flesh, sweet and juicy. One of the best early peach varieties.
China Flat:
China Flat is a white-fleshed variety needing 150 hours chill. A freestone heirloom variety that is flat in shape, pale in colour and with a delicious taste. Firm flesh.
Coronet:
The Coronet peach has medium to large yellow fleshed fruit. It has a quite sweet flavour.
Coronet peach is a free stone and is ideally used for fresh fruit, canning, stewing, baking and jam. It is quite a heavy cropper and self-pollinating.
Fruit ripens from late December onwards.
Trees grow approximately 4m x 4m.
Dwarf Valley Red:
A hardy, compact tree growing to 2 meters at full maturity. Long thin leaves are glossy and dark green. A beautiful display of rose-pink flowers are produced in spring. A moderate crop of fruit is produced mid-late season. Size and shape is medium and round to oblong. Skin colour is orange-yellow with a deep red blush. Flesh is golden when ripe and the eating quality is very good, with a melting sweet flavour. High Chill, not suited to Warm climates
Elberta:
The Elberta Peach tree is the best known yellow canning peach.
It is a freestone peach variety and has very large fruit. The skin is red blushed over a deep golden yellow colour.
This variety has a wonderfully sweet flavour, one of the sweetest peaches you will ever eat. Ideal for eating, juice, drying, stewing and canning.
A mid to late season variety.
Trees grow to approximately 4 x 4 metres.
Flavourcrest:
Medium to large, reddish skin over yellow background. Yellow-fleshed peach, not very hairy. Freestone, good flavour, quite sweet. Prone to splitstone under drought conditions.
Flordagem:
Semi freestone, average shape, medium size. Very attractive bright yellow with up to 60% red blush in warmer areas. Very firm, good flavour, moderately resistant to bacterial spot.
Flordaprince:
Yellow-fleshed variety requiring only 150 hours chill. A medium sized round fruit with a firm skin and good blush. Semi-clingstone. Earliest fruiting peach, popular low chill variety
Flordastar:
Flordaglow:
Fragar:
Heritage white flesh peach, pink to red skin over a greeny cream background. Flesh is softer and coarser than Tasty Zee, but with more complex flavour.
Golden Queen:
Well known heritage variety of clingstone from New Zealand. Medium sized fruit, deep orange skin and firm deep orange flesh. Sweet, excellent for bottling.
J H Hale, aka 'Million Dollar Peach'
Origin:
J.H. Hale is an old-time heirloom variety. J.H. Hale Orchards began in Glastenbury, Connecticutt in 1866, when John Howard Hale and his brother, George, cultivated their grandfather's seven peach trees.
Description:
A very large, round peach with yellow skin and red overlay and very little fuzz. Yellow flesh with a firm texture. A freestone peach.
Flavour:
It has a wonderfully sweet taste and aroma, and is an excellent peach for eating and canning.
Matures mid to late Febraury making it a late season variety.
JH Hale is not fully self fertile - it benefits from cross pollination by an Elberta peach. Trees grow approximately 4 x 4 metres.
Loring:
Very large yellow freestone, firm yellow flesh and a scarlet blush covering half of its golden yellow skin. A favourite peach in colder regions, excellent flavour and texture, reliable cropper, also suitable for drying
Maravilha:
A dessert cultivar
Newbell:
A late bearing variety with delicious firm flesh. The fruit lacks a dark red blush that has limited its commercial acceptability. Low chill requirements of 150hours.
O'Henry:
Prunus 'O. Henry' is a very popular old-fashioned free-stone peach with red skin and yellow flesh. It is incredibly tasty and juicy and is similar to the yellow-skinned variety 'Million Dollar', now known as 'JH Hale'. The main difference between them is that 'JH Hale' needs a pollinator, while all other peaches and nectarines are self-fertile.
Large, red blush over dark yellow ground colour. Tough skin, rich yellow flesh. Very sweet, aromatic. Freestone. Lends itself to poaching and other rich peach desserts.
Early O'Henry:
A rounded, well-coloured freestone peach with juicy yellow flesh
Okinawa:
Low chill peach rootstock used for grafting subtropical peach and plums onto. Has a degree of nematode resistence.
Orion:
A dessert cultivar
Pullar:
Large clingstone fruits, yellow flesh with red in the centre close to the stone, lovely flavour and very good fruits for bottling, and fresh eating, harvests very late
Redhaven:
Origin:
Introduced in 1940 by Dr. Stanley Johnston of Michigan State University, who helped revolutionise modern peach breeding.
Description:
The fruit is round, and medium to large sized. Flesh is yellow, skin has a dark red blush on exposed areas over a yellow background. A freestone variety.
Flavour: Moderately juicy with very good flavour.
Redhaven peach trees are quite heavy when cropping, some thinning may be beneficial. The fruit is ideal for eating fresh, drying or stewing.
The fruit ripens from early to late January making it a mid season variety. A must-have for any backyard orchard.
Trees grow approximately 4 x 4 metres.
Redtop:
Yellow flesh, medium to large peach, mostly red skin with yellow background. Good flavour, sweet and slightly acid. Freestone.
Sherman's Early:
A dessert cultivar
Springcrest:
A dessert cultivar
Springold:
A dessert cultivar
Sunset Dwarf Red Leaf:
High density flowering, double pink peach blossom in spring with a white flesh full sized peach, freestone. Often ripening just in time for Christmas. No pollination required. Great for warmer climates with only 300 chill hours required.
T204:
One of a series of clingstones developed at Tatura in Victoria in the 1980s. Medium to large, golden yellow skin with firm, juicy, sweet, yellow flesh. Excellent for bottling because retains shape well (and sweet enough to bottle with little or no sugar!).
T211:
Yellow-fleshed peach. Another in the series of clingstones developed at Tatura in Victoria in the 1980s. Very similar to T204 but more prolific bearer and slightly darker skin. Best to pick clingstones for bottling when just yellow and quite firm (though not too green or they won’t be sweet enough).
Taylor Queen:
Yellow-fleshed peach, clingstone, very similar to Golden Queen, but tends to be slightly smaller fruit. Very sweet, excellent for bottling.
Tropic Beauty:
Yellow fleshed variety needing only 150 hours chill. A semi-clingstone peach with round, large size and very good skin colour. Very firm with excellent flavour. One of the best subtropical peach selections.
Tropic Snow:
White, non browning fleshed variety requiring only 225 hours chill. A freestone peach with round, medium to large, creamy white skin and outstanding flavour. Highly resistant to bacterial spot. Ripens early November.
Val (Dwarf Peach):
A dwarf sized peach, reaching a total of 1 – 1.5 metres at maturity, suitable for limited spaces or pots, sweet yellow flesh
Wiggins:
Lovely old fashioned white fleshed peach, juicy and sweet, good quality, doesn’t have the colour of some modern varieties, but the flavour is all there
