Fruit and Nut Varieties for the Tyler, Texas Area

Keith Hansen, CEA - Horticulture; Brian Triplett, CEA - Agriculture

Texas AgriLife Extension Service

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