Lilly Pilly – White Apple – Syzygium forte

Plant family: Myrtaceae

Plant origin: Northern Territory, Cape York and North Eastern Queensland, Australia.

Fruit description: The White Apple Lilly Pilly produces apple shaped edible white fruits 8cm long and 6cm wide, with a crisp texture, mild flavour and 1 large seed in the middle. Cassowaries enjoy this fruit when it falls to the ground. Turtles, flying foxes and other birds enjoy the fruit too.

Flowers: The flowers are white, fluffy, occurring in dense clusters.

Growing conditions: This is a handsome hardy medium sized tree with papery orange brown bark, pretty white flowers and large white fruit. It grows to about 8 metres high, 4 metres wide. It is evergreen with large leathery leaves. It makes a good shade tree, irregular hedge tree or windbreak. It likes subtropical or tropical coastal conditions, full sun, well-drained soil. It can resist salt and withstand strong winds even cyclones.

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Pollination requirements: Self-Pollinating.

Harvest time Summer

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Grown by method: Seed Grown Pot size:

Plant growing Height and Width for pots or in the ground planting: Grows to 3 metres high by 2 metres wide if Planted in a Pot. Grows 8 metres high by 4 metres wide if Planted in the Ground.

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