What do you get when a nectarine flirts with a plum tree?
NectaPlums®:
nectarine + plum
very unusual, but not unnatural! never GMO!
'Spice Zee' NectaPlum® is the first such creation: a juicy, spicy-sweet, white fleshed nectarine with strong plum, zingy flavors. Unparalleled in flavor, it is the winner of many taste tests, with both nectarine and plum traits. Freestone fruits ripen in mid-July.
Skin is dark maroon red when it first forms, and lightens to a pale pink when ripe. Fruit production is heavy and fairly consistent from year to year.
Self fertile: no need for a pollinator. Very productive.
Spice Zee are very showy trees: new foliage is a crimson cranberry red which turns to a dark lush green about 5-6 weeks later. Trees continue to present with new red foliage all summer long. Growth habit is more like a nectarine than a plum.
Pale pink to white blossoms contrast against the crimson foliage in the early spring. At only 200 chill hours, Spice Zee is also one of the first of the nectarine types to begin flowering in the spring. Can also adapt to higher chill environments.
NectaPlums® are a hybrid mainly between two closely related species, plums and nectarines, with some peach genetics as well. Plant breeders nurtured these the old fashioned way: cross pollination and then 1000's of seedling trees to find the right one, NOT GMO's! Properly called "Interspecifics", nectaplums® are part of our Hanky Panky Collection of fruit trees.
15g Nectaplum® tree
'Spice Zee' is the first NectaPlum® creation from Zaiger Genetics, exclusively distributed by Dave Wilson Nursery in CA, and brought to you in Florida by the Green Genie.
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Spice Zee are available in two sizes:
15g / $99
approx 6' tall x 3' wide
1"-1.25" trunks
super 15g / $135
approx 7.5-8' tall x 4-5' wide: 1.38-1.5" trunks