The following is just some basic information about each variety to help you choose which
suits your needs best. Several links can be found throughout table. The links are to the
growing guides published by LSU Ag. Center. Another good source is The Home
Orchard: http://bit.ly/etLKrz
Satsumas
Owari Satsuma
Seedless, medium sized fruit,
segmented slices, easy to peel, ripens
mid to late October. Self-pollinating
Brown Select
Satsuma-
Seedless, medium sized fruit,
segmented slices, easy to peel, slightly
colder hardy than Owari, ripens 1 to 2
weeks before Owari in November. Selfpollinating
LA. Early Satsuma- Fruit is juicy, small to medium in size,
seedless, thin skin, segmented slices,
easy to peel, ripens from late
September to mid October. Selfpollinating
ST. ANN
It is a very high yield, very early
Satsuma, which will out produce any
other type 2 to 1. Produces Late
August to September. Self-pollinating
Oranges
Washington Navel Large round seedless fruit with a navel
on top of fruit ripens mid November to
January.
Dream Navel
Sweet, juicy & less acidic than most
other navels, medium in size with pale
orange rind, orange pulp & mango
aroma.
Pineapple Navel
Medium to large flattened ends,
seedless fruit.
LA Sweet
Fruit medium-small, seeds very few or
none. Well-colored at maturity Rind
thin, with smooth, finely pitted
surface. Flesh well-colored; tender,
juicy, lacking in acid; flavor sweet. One
of the earliest to mature.
Valencia oranges
Have seeds, varying in number from
zero to six per fruit. However, its
excellent taste and internal color make
it desirable for the fresh markets, too.
The fruit has an average diameter of
2.7 to 3 inches After bloom, it usually
carries two crops on the tree, the old
and the new
Medium sized fruit, dark burgundy rind,
almost seedless, blood colored flesh.
Blood Orange
(Moro)
Grapefruit
Ruby Red
Grapefruit-
Large oblate fruit with yellow/orange
skin, flesh is red blush in color.
Rio Red
Larger fruit with smooth thin yellow skin,
deep red flesh.
Lemons
Meyer Lemon
Thin, smooth, yellow/orange skin,
medium in size, fruit very juicy.
Variegated
Lemon-
Tree foliage is variegated in color
(green, yellow & white leaves); fruit is
pink inside when ripe.
Kumquats
Nagami Sour
Oval shaped fruit, skin sweet with tart
flesh.
Limes
Key Lime-
Thorn less Persian lime smaller in size,
thin, smooth yellow/greenish skin, flesh is
also yellow/greenish, high acidity,
strong aroma, tart and bitter taste,
seedier.
Persian Lime
Thicker skin, oval shaped, green skin
that turns yellow when ripe,
medium/large fruit, juicy, aromatic and
acidic, light green/yellow pulp.
kaffir lime
A rough, warty green fruit that grows on
thorny bush with aromatic and
distinctively shaped "double" leaves. It is
well suited to container growing
Mandarin
Ponkan
A great tree to grow, and produces fruit
larger than most mandarins, plus the
fruit has a pleasant sweetness to it.
Tangerines
Sunburst
Tangerine
Fruit is oblate, flattened at stem end
and has a depressed navel, it is a cross
between hybrids Robinson and
Osceola tangerine, rind is thin, smooth
and segmented slices with 10 to 20
seeds per fruit, ripens in mid November
to late December.
Other Citrus
Orlando tangelo
Chandler
Pummelo
Calamondin
Is often considered an ornamental
citrus tree, but the fruit is edible. The fruit
is small and orange, about 1" in
diameter, and resembles a small
tangerine. The peel is thin and smooth,
yellow to yellow-orange and easily
separable. The flesh is orange, juicy and
acid.
Fruit is extra, extra large, flesh is pink,
ripens in November
Fruit that is firm, juicy, and sweetest of
all. The fresh figs you will harvest from
your own backyard are of excellent
quality. The fruit is small to medium sized
with violet to purplish brown colored
skin. The Celeste fig does well in humid
locations, taking hot sun
Fig
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Celeste Fig
Medium sized, sweet fruit, amber pink
flesh, ripens early July
Improved Celeste
Fig
Slightly larger fruit than the Celeste Fig,
Ripens early July, sweet fruit, amber
pink flesh.
LSU Purple Fig
Medium sized, sweet fruit, dark purple
fig with reddish colored flesh, ripens in
late June.
LSU Gold Fig
Large yellow, flat fig with a light red
flesh ripens end of June.
White Fig
In the Kadota family, medium sized,
lemon yellow fruit with thick skin, sweet
amber flesh, and few seeds.
Marsailles
Medium to large, greenish/yellow fig
with pulp.
Kadota
Greenish/white fig, small to medium
size, all purpose fig mostly used to
canned.
Pear
Bartlett Pear
Medium sized with smooth yellow skin,
flesh is smooth, juicy and excellent for
canning, pear shaped, 800 chill hours
Asian Pear
Eating crisp, apple to tear drop shape,
fruit is juicier than an apple, 450 chill
hours.
Plum
Methley Plum
Medium sized fruit, self fertile,
red/purple in color, juicy red flesh,
ripens early June.
Santa Rosa
Self fertile, purple/red in color, yellow
flesh, ripen late June.
Loquat
(Japanese Plum
Small evergreen tree with a round
crown, short trunk, and wooly twigs,
fruits in clusters, succulent pulp with 3 to
5 seeds, flowers in fall.
Peach
Flodagold Peach
Rounded, medium to large in size,
yellow-fleshed, semi freestone peach,
325 chill hours.
Sam Houston
Peach
Round to oval with large tips, yellow
freestone peach, self-pollinating, 500
chill hours.
LA Feliciana
Peach
Large, sweet, freestone peach ripens in
July, self-pollinating, 550 chill hours.
Flordaking Peach
Medium sized red-blush skin &
golden/yellow flesh, semi clingstone
peach, self-pollinating, 400 to 450 chill
hours.
Vines
Premier Blueberry
Avocado
Sweet healthy, large powdery blue
berries, high quality, early ripening,
showy fall color, shades of red and
orange
Joey
Very vigorous and a dependable
bearer, is pear- shaped and dark
purple- black in color with smooth skin.
Lila
Pear-Shaped with green skin, good
flavor, hardly to mid to upper teens,
ripens in August/September.