Fruit Salad Tree

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The Fruit Salad Tree is a tree that grows a variety of fruits on the one tree. The tree is specailly grafted to the rootstock and then planted for growth. Trees can have any number of fruits (between two and eight) on them from the same fruit family. There are four types of Fruit Salad Trees currently on the market:

• "Citrus", which can grow lemons, limes, grapefruit, oranges, mandarines and tangellos
• "Stone", which can grow nectarines, peaches, apricots, plums and peachcots
• "Multi-apple", which can grow green, yellow and red skinned apples
• "Multi-nashi", which can grow four different types of Japanese pear