Fruit tree Fruit tree A fruit tree is a tree which bears fruit that is consumed or used by humans and some animals — all trees that are flowering plants produce fruit, which are the ripened ovaries of flowers containing one or more seeds. In horticultural usage, the term 'fruit tree' is limited to those that provide fruit for human food. Types of fruits are described and defined elsewhere (see Fruit), but would include "fruit" in a culinary sense, as well as some nut-bearing trees, such as walnuts. The scientific study and the cultivation of fruits is called pomology, which divides fruits
Green rosella eucalypts—forming the bulk of its diet; other items eaten include the seed of the soft tree fern ("Dicksonia antarctica"), cranberry heath ("Astroloma humifusum"), myrtle beech ("Lophozonia cunninghamii"), Australian blackwood ("Acacia melanoxylon"), silver wattle ("Acacia dealbata") and buttercups ("Ranunculus"), berries, nuts and fruit, as well as flowers and new buds of southern sassafras ("Atherosperma moschatum"), mānuka ("Leptospermum scoparium"), shining tea-tree ("Leptospermum nitidum"), swamp honey-myrtle ("Melaleuca squamea"), Tasmanian bluegum ("Eucalyptus globulus"), Smithton peppermint ("Eucalyptus nitida"), messmate stringybark ("Eucalyptus obliqua"), snow gum ("Eucalyptus pauciflora"), manna gum ("Eucalyptus viminalis"), small-fruit hakea ("Hakea microcarpa") and native plum ("Cenarrhenes nitida"). The green rosella has at times