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Star Apple - Newcomb pop pop o pop oStar Apple Newcomb A purple skinned variety with translucent flesh. The delicious sweet fruit has flavours reminiscent of grape and melon, however, fruit should be well coloured and mature, as immature fruit are sticky with latex, especially near the skin. Star apples are very attractive as an ornamental specimen tree. A medium to large evergreen tree, its weeping form and glossy, velvet, green leaves, with a gold underside, gives the tree its ability

Apart from producing delicious fruit and plenty of it these trees have a spectacular appearance

European settlers were also known to use them in jams and pies

Self Pollinating

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Punica granatum

Its edible berries are used in bushfood

Trees are very cold sensitive and are only suited to the tropics

if not expecting fruit quality in the drier years is fairly drought tolerance

The flowers and berries appear blue in colour and are produced during Spring and Summer

and typically matures from mid-late summer

thick skin and is easy to peel with a excellent flavour

Avocados do well in a partly shady position and it is advisable to create a mound of soil to plant them on top of