What is a Fruit Salad Tree?

A fruit salad tree, developed by the West Family in New England, New South Wales, Australia, bears up to eight different fruits of the same family on the one plant. All fruits retain their own individuality, with staggered ripening times.

There are 4 Tree Types

Stone fruits which grows peaches, plums, nectarines, apricots and peachcots
Citrus which grows a winter and summer orange, mandarins, lemons, limes, grapefruits, tangelos and pomelos
Multi-apples only
Multi-nashi fruit only

The Fruit Salad Tree can be grown in the ground as for normal fruit trees, or in pots for those people with very limited space. Instead of having numerous different trees with more fruit than your household can consume there is only one tree with all of the fruits ripening naturally over a period of months. There can be more than one variety of an individual fruit on a tree, thus extending the picking time.

There are trees available to suit different climatic conditions, whether cool, warm, tropical or subtropical.

Trees are grown so that the fruiting branches begin from approx. 10 cms above soil level, keeping the height to a minimum, which allows easy harvesting, eliminating the need for ladders.

Full details of the varieties can be found on the Variety Details page.

Basic care of the trees is covered on the FAQ page.

Our order form (which includes prices & freight costs within Australia) can be printed for mailing or faxing to us.

Print or download our Care Leaflet, print or download our full-colour brochure. Both of these files require Adobe Acrobat Reader. If it is not installed on your computer, get it here.

We hope that these pages will inspire you to place an order with us and begin to enjoy the luxury of having many varieties of fresh fruit available for picking in the minimum of space, with the minimum of care.

James & Kerry West