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| PAPAYA Tropical Dwarf gold (carica papaya) PB 5 30cm
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| These are tropical plants and will not tolerate cold. They are dwarf, so ideally suited to a tunnel house or conservatory, or very large pots indoors. They bear the gold-fleshed fruit of the true papaya i.e.sweet and juicy. You will need at least two for pollination, but they do not need to be the same variety. |
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| PASSIONFRUIT (Passiflora) PB3 60cm
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| The pulp of passionfruit is delicious added to fruit salads or used to flavour yoghurt etc. Can be stored frozen, if you can resist the temptation to eat it at once!
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| PASSIONFRUIT Ligularis PB5 80cm
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| Large heart shaped soft leaves, new growth has purple tinged, pale green flowers. The fruit are bigger than the purple passionfruit, round with orange/brown skins. The pulp is more liquid than that of the others. The vine has a lush tropical appearance and is vigorous. |
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| PASSIONFRUIT Purple (Passiflora edulis) PB3 80cm
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| The more common passionfruit variety, fruit have purple skin. Delicious pulp, fruit drops when ripe so perfect for growing up trees. Shiny green leaves, a vigorous climber. |
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| PASSIONFRUIT Quadrangularis (passiflora quadrangularis) PB 3 60cm
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| The largest of all the passionfruit, this is an extremely vigorous vine with huge melon-sized fruit. It requires full sun to produce fruit, but the vine will grow in partial shade. Also known as giant granadilla, the fruit is mild flavoured, sweet, often eaten cooked. |
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| PASSIONFRUIT Vanilla (Passiflora antioquiensis) PB3 80cm
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| A really special passionfruit, the ripe fruit are long with a yellow skin when ripe and a very sweet, rich aromatic pulp. My favourite. The vines have narrow dark green leaves and a reddish stem. Non-invasive. The flowers are being beautiful large tropical looking scarlet flowers growing to 10-12 cm across and with purple blue centres. Flowers appear Spring and Autumn. |
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| PASSIONFRUIT Yellow PB5 70cm
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| Similar to the purple passionfruit, but with milder, sweeter yellow fruit. The plant is slightly more cold tolerant than the purple variety. |
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| PAWPAW
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| We have several varieties of pawpaw. Except for the Rainbow Valley variety, these are seedling grown, so you may need more than one plant to be sure of getting a female.
They prefer shelter, but are otherwise quite tolerant of soil type and some cold. |
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| PAWPAW MOUNTAIN (Carica pubescens) PB5 40cm
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| The most common of the carica varieties in N.Z. it will begin fruiting in the first year, and is a prolific fruiter. Fruit are yellow, with delicious sweet aromatic pulp. Can be eaten cooked or raw. Spectacular tropical looking plant for landscape purposes, hardiest of the papayas withstanding light frosts.
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| PAWPAW - Oak Leaf (carica quercifolia) PB3 30cm
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| This is a tall-growing pawpaw with small, orange coloured fruit [5-7cm] that you eat skin and all. They taste just like orange squash and are a favourite with children and adults alike. You need both male and female plants for pollination, so you will need to have at least three to have a fair chance of having both sexes. The mature plants are hardy to mild frost. |
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| PAWPAW Carica goudotiana PB5 40cm
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| This variety is the same size as a mountain pawpaw (about 3-4m). The fruit is orange toned and fragrant. The leaves are a rich green with red midribs and stems. Delicious on the BBQ, just slice the fresh fruit and lightly grill both sides, serve with cream and a sprinkling of brown sugar if desired. |
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| PAWPAW RAINBOW VALLEY PB5 40cm
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| Not just a pawpaw but a pawpaw/babaco cross, with larger fruit than the mountain pawpaw, and tastier fruit than either of its parents. The fruit can be eaten skin and all. It crops prolifically for nine months of the year. |
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| PAWPAW RAINBOW VALLEY - Large grade PB 5 80cm
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| PAWPAW Tropical
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| PEPINO - RED (solanum muricatum) PB3 30cm
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| Like the yellow pepino, but the fruit is red fleshed. Great to add a diffrent colour to fruit salads. The leaves are a more purple colour, so they add a different colour in the garden as well. |
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| PEPINO - YELLOW (Solanum muricatum) PB3 30cm
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| Pepinos are a fast growing, low-lying, bushy member of the Solanum family. Best with something to lean on or climb up – banana palm, fence, babaco etc (getting the fruit off the ground stops the slaters getting them). A really delicious melon type fruit which will produce lots of fruit in early spring when there’s not much else. A good one for children, because they’re easy to grow and fruit quickly. They also make tasty dried fruit.
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| PEPPER (Hot Perennial) PB3 30cm
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| These are very hot peppers, 9-10 on a scale of 10. In fact they’re so hot their nickname is ‘the gringo killer’! Beautiful yellow peppers with black seeds which won’t cross pollinate with your other peppers because they’re a different species (which means you can save the seed of your sweet peppers). They ramble up trees or fences and last for years – they’re fairly hardy and will take light frosts, excellent up the babaco, cherimoya or banana trunks etc in the subtropical orchard.
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| PINEAPPLE (Ananas bracteatus) PB5 40cm
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| This hardy bromeliad will grow in nearly all NZ situations, and will produce sweet, juicy pineapples outdoors. A four year old clump can produce 10 or more pineapples. The flowers are spectacular as well. Plant in full sun or filtered light in well drained soil, dig in plenty of fertiliser and protect from severe frost. Suitable for container or open ground.The plants need to be staked against wind. |
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| PITAYA - Red (Hylocereus undatus, Dragon Fruit) PB3
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| Also known as dragon fruit and strawberry pear, this unusual fruit probably originates from Southern Mexico. It grows on a branching cactus with fleshy stems reaching from a few centimetres to 6m long in mature plants, which will put out aerial roots, and which require support. The fruit is the size of an apple, brilliant red in colour, with a texture similar to a melon, and is pleasantly sweet in flavour. Even if it didn’t taste as good as it does, it would be worth growing for the colour it can add to a fruit salad, and for the unusual way it grows. The flowers are ornate and beautiful, but bloom at night and only last for one night. Do not plant in full sun, and protect from excessive rainfall. Easily grown in a large pot.
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