- Apples
and More - Learn about apple history, varieties, selection
and uses, recipes, orchards and fun activities for children.
- California
Tropical Fruit Tree Nursery - This is a commercial nursery
site, but it has many photos of rare fruits suitable for subtropic
and tropic zones. It makes a very good 'miniphotographic encyclopaedia'of
uncommon but interesting fruits.
- Camu
Camu, Myrciaria dubia - Several paragraphs on the distribution
of Camu-camu,the fruit with the highest vitamin C value of
any in the world; it's nutritional value and uses. Includes
a picture of the berries.
- Considerate
Tree Care, Inc. - Join Joseph L. Jonas, a professional
in tree preservation for over 20 years, in a step by step
program on how to help improve the quality of your citrus
fruit.
- Durian
OnLine - Everything about the Durian, King of the Fruits.
recipes, links, photos, info, art, news, articles, nutrition,
cultivation, market, books, statistics.
- Evergreen
Home & Garden Showplace - From East Tennessee gardeners,
plenty of gardening tips from the Green People on how to be
successful in home, yard, garden and landscaping.
- California
Rare Fruit Growers, Inc.
- Membership information, seed bank, book reviews,
local chapter information, plant descriptions, member nurseries
and fruit sources.
- The
Natural Food Hub - Overall, probably the most outstanding resource for the home
food gardener on the web. Newsletter, every fruit and nut
tree under the sun, all climatic zones from temperate to tropic,
encyclopaedic listing, altho' the notes are brief.Written
totally from the home garden, practical point of view.
- Fruit
and Nuts from Sierra Gold Nurseries - This California,
USA, nursery has very good variety descriptions for common
fruit and nuts, including walnut, almond, pear, asian pear,
prune plum, apricot and more. It has an extensive listing
for peaches. Of particular value are the notes on chilling
hour requirements for those who live in warmer areas.
- Fruit
Facts - Fruit Facts-mainline to the California Rare Fruit
Growers excellent fact sheets, from Avocado to Zizyphus.These
fact sheets are outstanding.
- Grape
cultivars - -Lon Rombough, Horticultural Consultant &
plant breeder haas information on 130 odd grape cultivars
in tabular form - disease resistance, best use, grape color,
etc.Written from experience in Oregon USA (cooler climate)
conditions.
- GrapeSeek.com
- A directory of selected grape growing and wines sites. Some
information on table grapes varieties mostly varietal descriptions.
Mainly oriented to wine grapes.
- http://www.uq.edu.au/~gagkrego/profiles/1-profil.htm
- From the Australian 'New Crop Profiles', there is worthwile
information on 'Longan', 'Asian Pear', and 'Olive', mainly
for subtropical to tropical areas.
- kiwifruit
- kiwifruit cultivars, hardy kiwifruit, links to kiwifruit
web pages. Part of warm temperate fruit and nut site.
- Lychee
Woods - Lychee Woods- a few sentences on 24 common and
rare tropical and subtropical fruit link to a page for each
fruit giving a good quick overview, and usually, a photograph.
- The
Mango Page: Mangifera Indica, Tropical Fruit - Mango Cultivars
from A-Z and everything in between. Mango culture, history,
disease, links, news - everything. Almost without a doubt
this is the richest content and link list on growing mangoes
on the Internet.
- Mark
Rieger's Fruit Crop Home Page - From Professor Mark Reitger
of the University of Georgia. Slanted to commercial culture,
but still very useful. The historical notes are intriguing
and sometimes amusing. There are good photos of the tree,
fruit, flowers, and notes on nutritional composition. Covers
many common fruits and nuts, as well as some unusual ones.
- Marula,
Sclerocarya caffra - Information on Marula is hard to
come by. This is the best I have seen, at the Kew Garden economic
plants for semi arid areas database. Not a lot on culture,
a lot on distribution, uses, nutritional value, and a good
photo of the fruit.
- Northwest
Berry & Grape Information Net - The most comprehensive
information and communications resource for berry and grape
growing.
- Olives
Australia - A commercial site by a leading Australian
Nursery, it has excellent and very detailed growing advice,
as well as many olive related products such as books, subscription
to 'the olive magazine' (print), pitters, etc for sale.
- Oregon
Live -- Living -- Gardening -- Hungry Gardener Index -
Fruit, especially wild fruit, written about by a home gardener,
for home gardeners, particularly for the Pacific Northwest
USA. Entertaining and informative.
- Saskatoon
(Juneberry) - A fact sheet on the cultivation and care
of the saskatoon.
- Sonoma
Antique Apple Nursery - Altho' a commercial site, there
are useful notes on varity characteristics for most main types
of fruit, and also pawpaw, kiwi, and pecans. It's main strength
is the information on 'antique' apple varieties.
- Strawberries
and More - A guide to growing strawberries, strawberry
farms, selection and care, history, recipes and festivals.
University of Illinois Extension
- Tropical
Fruit - Casimiroa, Black Persimmon & Mabola - An excellent
an authoratative site for unusual tropical fruits, including
varieties, recipes, pros and cons. Highly recommended.
- Tropical
Guava - a very good one page synopsis of the culture and
nutriotional benefits of guava from Fort Valley State University,
Georgia, USA. There is also a useful page on Tropical Papaya
for cool conditions.
- UVM
Apple Orchard - Provides relevant and timely horticultural,
integrated pest management, marketing and economics information
to commercial tree fruit growers in Vermont and beyond.
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