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FRUIT VARIETIES at WERRIBEE PARK HERITAGE ORCHARD
The cultivars (varieties) of old fruit trees in the Werribee Park Heritage Orchard have yet to be identified, but we believe we have:
• 18 Cydonia cultivars (Quince),
• 20 Pyrus cultivars (Pear)
• 26 Malus cultivars (Apple)
Just over 50% of the fruit trees are estimated to be forty to sixty years old.
Approximately half of these are Pear and half Apple.
Eighteen, or 28% of the trees are Quince,
estimated to be in the order of eighty to one hundred years old.
As we discover what the varieties are, we will list them on this web site.
Historically, the orchard also contained peaches, grapes, plums, walnuts, olives and other fruits.
Newly Planted Heritage Fruit Varieties
This is a list of our new trees, purchased from Pete the Permie in 2009.
Plums (Prunus)
- Satsuma
- Robe de Sergeant
- King Billy
- Coe's Golden Drop
(syn. Bury Seedling; Coe's; Coe's Imperial; Fair's Golden Drop; Golden Drop; Golden Gage)
Apples
(Malus)
- Striped Beefing
- King Cole
- Chandler
- Cranberry Pippin
- Forge
- Altlanta
- Woodstock Pippin
- Barry
- Cox's Orange Pippin
- Ortley (Syn Cleopatra)
- Blue Pearmain
- Pine Golden Pippin
- Roundway Magnum Bonum
- Finson's Orange
- Keswick Codlin
- Autumn
- Cornish Aromatic
- Golden Harvey
- Gravenstein
- Devonshire Quarrenden
- Lalla
- Bedford Pippin
- Bramley’s Seedling
- Murray Gem
- Maiden's Blush
- Golden Sweet
- Brabant Bellefleur
- King of the Pippins
- Golden Noble
- Orleans Reinette
- Hoover
- Geeveston Fanny
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