Excalibur Fruit Trees

I have bought fruit trees at Excalibur. They also have the famous 8−3−9 fertilizer that is all purpose for mangoes and other fruit trees. Be sure to pick some up!

My caribbean edible garden is in full swing and I was looking for some exotic fruit trees that I can enjoy right in South Florida without getting on a plane and going home.
I found Quenepas, Still can’t believe it. Apple Bannanas, Guava, Tamarind, Cassava. Once I plant these, my next trip will be for a fully grown coconut tree.
As a person that eats mostly fruits throughout the day, A tear came to my eye knowing that soon I will walk in my yard and get better quality fruit than in any store absolutely free.
This place has transported me back home and on top of that, they have a fruit sample stand.
Pure Joy A++++++++

You’ll find very knowledgeable people at Excalibur. I enjoy visiting their little carport fruit stand throughout the year to sample different tropical fruits in season, things you will not find in your local market. That little fruit stand gave me the start and push I needed to become a tropical-​fruit-​aholic. its specially good during the mango season.
Although the nursery has some tropical ornamentals, Excalibur is mainly a tropical fruit tree nursery with a wide array of tropical fruit varieties from all over the world. as others have stated the nursery is in a an area that is residential acreage, not the type of nursery you can walk around on your own, but they have plenty of friendly employees who will drive you around in golf carts and take you to the plants you want to see and purchase. my little ones enjoy going along for the ride. Staff is very knowledgeable and have always been helpful wether in person or on the phone. they have a plant list on their website, but its good to call ahead anyway and check for availability. just in case I was there and bought everything out. bwahahaha! ;)

I write a bit with sadness, a bit with gladness. Gladness because I found such a cool nursery. Sadness, because we met the owner, and I could see he is older. So many cool nurseries I find in Florida seem to be run by older people, and I worry about the future of these nurseries.
First off, this does not look like a standard nursery, except maybe a standard nursery in South Florida. It is in a residential type acreage neighborhood. You drive by many lots with horses, and then you come to a flurry of activity. The entrance to the nursery is on one side, parking on the other. It had rained the day we came so it was very muddy with large puddles to try to navigate.
When we arrived, as other people have stated, you are immediately greeted by people in golf carts and offered to be escorted around. Some reviewers were irritated about not being able to walk around, but I can understand. The place is HUGE. It is not the sort of place you can easily walk around. Besides, there are no tags, no signs, no seeming organization. It would be useless and perhaps a liability for the owner to have people wandering around the whole place. How would you carry the plants so far either? Besides, we got such an awesome tour by our golf cart driver. We didn’t find out until half way through that he was the owner. That explains his copious knowledge of plants. He hinted of trips to Thailand (to find new varieties of plants?) We were shown plants I had never heard of, smelled several fragrant flowers and leaves. There were many plants that we had been looking for, or didn’t know that we were looking for, but now wanted. More than we had money to buy at the moment really. We bought two monstera deliciosa. We had mistakenly thought it was the swiss cheese plant, but we were corrected and given a clipping of that particular plant! We also found a plant we didn’t know we wanted, candle bush. And I was able to replace a quadrangularis passiflora (giant granadilla) that didn’t make it through the terrible heat and drought of this summer, at $ 5 cheaper than the other one I had bought. The owner bragged that he had an amazing inventory of many different types of plants, and I believed it from our short tour. It seems they have a focus on edible plants, so I asked, do you only do edibles? He said, no I have things that will kill you deader than a doornail… lol. Oh, it was out of our price range, but they had an acai palm, you know acais, one of those super fruits that go for high dollar at health food stores?!
Contrary to some of the other older nurseries we have seen, the plants for this one seemed healthy, happy, and well taken care of.
I do have to remark that all of our zipping around on a gold cart got me a little muddy since it had just rained. Someone kindly hosed me off. Probably better to go on a dry day!
Lastly, they had a nice little farmers market at the checkout stand with a good variety of different mangoes and passion fruit. They did take credit card which was nice.

They don’t always have everything in stock, but their catalog is one of the best in South Florida (and the world). Yes, service has been «hit or miss» in the past, and some of the nursery stock has been there for a while, but still Excalibur is a vital resource if you’re into tropical fruit trees. No one else comes close!

If I could leave no stars, I would. this place has TERRIBLE service and the staff is rude. And from what I could tell, the plants are older and not well pruned. I would stick to the farmers market on military and Atlantic, as they have a good selection, and are MUCH more helpful.