r/GardeningAustralia • u/NoRutabaga2957 • 27d ago
Anyone know what this tree is? I’m in Melbourne 🌻 ID This Plant
Hi everyone! I’m very lucky to live in a rental in Melbourne that has some very established growth in the backyard. This will be my third summer here but prior to this year not much really came to fruition 😜 aside from the mandarin tree. Looking at these a few weeks ago I felt certain it couldn’t be a nectarine tree but now I’m starting to think they are nectarines. Can anyone identify? I could probably just google nectarine tree but let’s see if anyone on here can help me out 🙂
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u/all_2_hard_83 27d ago
Definitely a Nectarine. A late variety, bit hard to tell which one exactly. You will need to guard it with you life though. Everyone and everything will won’t to eat it before it’s ready.
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u/jadelink88 27d ago
Nectarine, as others have said. Net it if you want to have the fruit tree ripened, which will be better than any you've had from colesworth.
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u/Muggins75 27d ago
You're very lucky. My nectarine tree has fruit, but at the moment, they are about 1/3 the size of yours. Enjoy!
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u/NoRutabaga2957 27d ago
Oh wow. That is lucky. We will net them this week and see if we can get some edible fruit. How exciting!
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u/BustedWing 27d ago
Definitely nectarine. Used to have them in my garden as a kid.
Your post brings back memories
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u/Blackletterdragon 27d ago edited 27d ago
Watch out for fruit fly. If you are in luck, it might be one of the late-ripening free-stone nectarines.
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u/2dayswork 27d ago
Looks like a white nectarine. Might be wise to net the tree. We have many species including bats that will feast on these healthy fruits.
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u/NoRutabaga2957 27d ago
Thanks for the comments everyone. I’ll be netting the tree ASAP so I can look forward to some home grown nectarines real soon.
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u/galahmageddon 26d ago
Made some nectarine jam with fruit straight off the tree next door. Had a couple of colesworth nectarines in the fruit bowl so threw them in. Well it was obvious which ones they were in the cooking. They swelled up and looked like polystyrene. Had to pull them out before bottling because they spoiled the look of the jam
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u/jmedwedew 26d ago
Mine is a nectarine tree and the fruits are about the same size as yours too, I'm in Gippsland, Vic.
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u/Jackgardener67 27d ago
Nectarine or peach I think. Diffic to tell from a 2 dimensional photo lol
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u/OG_Freckles 27d ago
Plum
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u/Deep_Curve7564 27d ago
Reminds me of gage plums that we had at mums very old orchard in england. The shape is reminiscent of a damsen plum but not the colour.
I am with you on this one.
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u/NoRutabaga2957 27d ago
Thanks for the reply however I don’t think so as we already have another tree that has grown some delicious ripe plums (I should have mentioned this in original post). These ones in photos are still very firm. Potentially weeks away from being ripe.
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u/CartographerUpbeat61 27d ago
I thought so too … the skin has that speckle … so it’s just u n me 😂😂👍
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u/Tella-Vision 27d ago
Yeah, we have the same tree and I thought plum!
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u/Blackletterdragon 27d ago
There is an amazing diversity of plums. I think they must be promiscuous breeders.
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u/HeadlessZombiePorn 27d ago
Yes and the nectarine is a cross between a peach and a plum.
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u/Blackletterdragon 27d ago
That seems obvious for yellow "nectarines", which when they first appeared, were sometimes called "peacherines". Is it also true of white nectarines (the one true nectarine IMHO)? Those taste so much better, but have a miserable shelf life.
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