Fruit and Nut Varieties for the East Texas Area Texas AgriLife Extension Service Cary Sims – CEA –Agriculture - ([email protected]) 1 PEACHES – 2 APPLES STRAWBERRIES – (Select on chilling hours) Red Delicious Jerseymac (*Best commercial varieties) Regal (700) Derby (750) Mollies Delicious Holland *Chandler Harvester (750) Dixieland (750) Golden Delicious Prime Gold *Pajaro Redskin (750) Frank (750) Gala Granny Smith Cardinal (Home gardens) Summergold (750) Carymac (750) Super Gala Smoothee Sunrise (Home gardens) Sunprince (800) Loring (800) Allstar (Home gardens) Ruston Red (800) Bounty (800) Tioga (Home gardens) Majestic (800) Fireprince (800) 2 PEAR Fort Laramie (Home gardens) Denman (850) Redglobe (850) Ayers Garber Sequoia (Home gardens) Sentinal (850) Flameprince(850) Orient Maxine Ouachita Gold (850) Moonglow Tennessee Kieffer Savannah BLACKBERRIES LeConte Warren Brazos Cheyenne 1 NECTARINES Rosborough Womack Armking Crimson Gold Redgold Shawnee Choctaw 2 ASIAN PEARS Shinko Navaho (thornless/erect) Ya Li Tsu Li Apache (new 1992-thornless/erect) 1 PLUMS Arapaho (thornless/erect) Morris Bruce Black Satin (Semi-erect) Methley Allred PERSIMMON- Hull (Semi-erect) Ozark Premier (A=Astringent, NA=Non-Astringent) A.U. Producer (Home use) Eureka (Best commercial variety) A.U. Amber (Home use) Fuyu (NA) RASPBERRIES A.U. Roadside (Home use) Hachiya (A) (Can produce seedless fruit) Dormanred Tamopan (A) “ “ Baba (Trial Only) Tane-nashi (A) 1 APRICOT Chocolate (NA) Hungarian Moorpark Wilson Peggy CHESTNUTS – PECANS- CITRUS - (Chinese Chestnut Hybrids) (**Trial only & leading varieties in Louisiana) (Containers only - protect during winter) American X Chinese Nanking Desirable Mandarins (Satsuma, Owari) Revival Dustan Hybrid Cape Fear Tangerines Caddo Tangelos BLACK WALNUTS Choctaw Calamondin Thomas Myers (Thinnest shell) Pawnee Limequat (lime-kumquat hybrid) Ohio Ogden Stabler Osage (Trial only/good disease resistance) Kumquat Houma (Trial only/good disease resistance) Meyer Lemon 2 RABBITEYE BLUEBERRIES Elliott (Home orchard only) Mexican or Key Lime Delite Tifblue Melrose (Trial only) West Indian Lime Climax Brightwell Oconee (Trial only) Tangor Temple Orange Briteblue **Moreland FIGS **Candy Texas Everbearing (Brown Turkey) BUNCH GRAPES **Jackson Celeste Orlando Seedless Champanel **Sumner POMEGRANATE Blanc du Bois Norris Forkert Wonderful Prilop Cynthiana (Norton) Black Spanish (Lenior) Flavorful Lake Emerald MAYHAWS JUJUBES Super Spur Li 3 MUSCADINE GRAPES- Big Red (Rust resistant) Lang (*probably the best for fresh fruit market) Highway Super Berry Regale Higgins Southland Mason's Super Berry *Summit Magnolia *Triumph T.O. Super Berry *Fry Jumbo Watergate Red and Yellow Cowart Dixie Hunt Senoia Sweet Jenny *Scuppernog *Granny Val Sugargate Welder Doreen Ison *Nesbit 1 If soil is deep sand, variety should be grafted onto Nemaguard or Nemared rootstock Noble 2 Need more than one variety for pollination 3 Certain muscadines can be self-fertile or female only. Plant 1 self-fertile variety for every 6 female varieties .