A plant bearing a supersized new Australian avocado variety is tipped to be a sell-out, ahead of its first release to retail nurseries and home gardeners.
A plant producing a supersized new Australian avocado variety — four times the size of a store-bought fruit — is tipped to be a sell-out, ahead of its first release to retail nurseries and home gardeners.But the 81-year-old never expected to create a legacy with Jala, a prolific new avocado variety producing enormous slow-oxidising fruit.
"The number of fruit on the tree, the size, the flavour, the fact that it didn't oxidise quickly," she said. But when āhuacatl began being farmed commercially in the United States, the name was hard to pronounce and market. The Australian Horticulture Statistics Handbook showed that in 2022-23, 65 per cent of Australian households purchased avocados, buying an average of 537g per shopping trip.
Flemings Nursery won the best new product with its grafted Jala trees at the recent Greenlife/Nursery and Garden Industry Queensland conference.Manager Jess Fleming said Jala trees grew up to about 10 metres tall, depending on soil type and environmental conditions, and had great potential for home gardens because they "yield well and easily".
A second release is planned for November/December, with supply to expand in autumn and spring next year.Although some Jala fruit has been sent to the Brisbane markets, seasonal supply has been limited to the small number of mature trees in trial orchards.
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