Fruit
Apollo
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Apollo is a New Zealand feijoa cultivar with smooth, sweet-aromatic flesh and reliable commercial/home performance—medium-large green fruit that scoop cleanly when soft. Flavour is classic pineapple-myrtle with less harshness than poor seedlings. Often planted with pollinator partners. Pick up windfalls daily in season; refrigerate briefly once ripe. Excellent fresh and in fool-style desserts. Skin can be thinly zested for fragrance if not bitter. A benchmark named feijoa in NZ nursery lists.
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BakeChutneyDessert FoolFresh Spoon
Traits
Garden And OrchardGreenNZ CultivarPerfumedReliableScoop CleanSweetSweet Aromatic
History
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Apollo was selected among NZ feijoa improvement efforts.
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Home gardeners widely planted Apollo for flavour.
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Commercial orchards included Apollo in cultivar mixes.
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Apollo remained a standard named feijoa.