Tropical Fruit Trees - Lightworks Nursery

Florida Fruit Trees

We will be adding more text as we develop the site, but in the meantime you might be interested in several articles by Rich Parker: Air Layering How to plant your trees Hybridization of Today's Fruit Trees. If you have any questions, call 941-475-0557.

Current Tropical Fruit Listings from Lightworks Nursery

Ambarella
Atemoyas and Annonas
Avocados
Bananas
Black Sapote

Blueberries
Jaboticaba Trees
Jakfruit
Lychees
Mangos

Peanut Butter Fruit Tree
Sapodilla
Star Fruit - Carambolas
Strawberry Fruit Tree
White Sapote

Soon we will be talking about such wonderful things as figs, persimmons, grapes, longans, macadamia nuts, miracle fruit, surinam cherries, pineapples, peaches, mulberries, canistels (egg-fruit), papayas, passion fruit, soursop (maybe - these tend to have difficulties at 45 degrees), and more (yes, you can grow all these fruits in southwestern Florida). Please note that currently we do NOT ship plants.

Additional Sources of Information:
A great source of information is the web site of the California Rare Fruit Growers at http://crfg.org/ And then, there is the "Bible" of growing tropical fruit in Florida, "Fruits of Warm Climates" by Julia F. Morton, which is no longer in print, but can be found here: http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/index.html Other sources of information: http://www.naturalhub.com/indices_fruit_and_nut.htm More Links	Manatee County Chapter
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