Fruit Varieties for Texas

Your county Extension office maintains a list of Texas A&M-recommended varieties of fruit and pecans for your area.

Specifically, for North Central Texas
For our Website visitors from the North Central Texas region, Dr. George Ray McEachern, Fruit and Pecan Specialist from Texas A&M recommended the following 10 varieties as being the best of each class for that part of the state as he was recently a guest on Neil Sperry’s Texas Gardening on radio station KRLD.

Pear: Orient
Plum: Methley
Peach: Red Globe
Blackberry: Arapaho
Pecan: Caddo
Fig: Celeste
Persimmon: Eureka
Grape, white: Blanc du Bois
Grape, red: Champanel
Grape, purple: Black Spanish
Muscadine: Black Beauty
Citrus: Satsuma Mr. Mac
Apple: Holland