Bethel Grove Gardens · Variety reference
Preston Prolific
Biological type: Common (persistent)
Pollination: Unknown
Cutting reference$12.00
One-gallon reference$40.00
Reference estimates, not sale offers or mature-tree appraisals. Price evidence date not recorded.
No verified photograph yet
Fruit & growing traits
- Biological type
- Common (persistent)
- Crop habit
- Unifera (main crop)
- Main crop ripening
- Average
- Flavor profile
- Honey
- Fruit size
- Large
- Skin color
- Straw to purplish-brown
- Pulp color
- Creamy white / amber
- Hardiness / climate notes
- Vigorous shade-tree habit; split-resistant; Dec–Apr in AU
Reported growth habit: Unknown
Origins & names
- Geographic origin
- Victoria, Australia
- Possible origin
- Australia
- Synonyms / alternate names
- Prestons Prolific
- Same or nearly the same
- Victorian seedling, thought to be of Black Genoa
- Popular close brother
- Black Genoa
- Known parentage
- Thought to be a Black Genoa seedling
- Reference year
- 1960
- First year (estimate)
- Sold since the 1960s; in Vic/NSW collections by 1974
- What the year means
- Official release or first wide circulation
Evidence & reference values
- Confidence
- Medium — breeder notes / national commercial lists / collector forums
- Key sources
- NSW DPI; Baxter 1981; figs4fun Preston Prolific; Australian nurseries
- Condit page
- Unknown / not recorded
- Notes
- Australian original. Heavy cropper, short stalk, distinctive sweet flesh. Some nursery lots look different — wood is not perfectly uniform.
- Commonality
- Average
- Market availability
- Garden center
Imported catalog record; not individually reviewed. Separate names do not necessarily establish distinct genotypes.