I lost a few trees this past winter, so I'm looking for more cold tolerant trees. I accumulated a list of subtropical trees that will do well in zone 8.

zone 8a (maybe even zone 7)

white sapote

strawberry guava

loquat

pineapple guava

pomegranate

some bananas

jaboticaba

Avocado (mexican varieties)

passionfruit (p. incarnata, root hardy)

dwarf ambarella (root hardy, will fruit right after a freezing winter. regular ambarella is not listed because even if they come back after a freeze (protected) they will not fruit that year. However, young leaves are edible)

papaya, start indoors, grow as an annual.

pawpaw (anonna relative, but is actually a temperate-climate tree)

The above plants can be planted in the ground in zone 8 "without" protection, maybe mounding the mulch on the base, but that's it.

zone 8b:

avocado

clumping Bamboo (most are root hardy)

citrus(esp. satsuma, calamondin, mandarins, moro blood orange, texas republic orange)

guava (will come back from the roots, may fruit same year if thicker stems are still alive)

banana

cherimoya and atemoya

carambola (safer in zone 9a)

sapodilla (safer in zone 9a)

The above may need to be covered during heavy freezes, may have damage during a bad freeze but will still have a high chance of survival if protected.

I think this list will help a few of us that suffer from zone denial (like myself :). Are there other edible plants that could be added to this list?