SAPODILLA (Ciku, Nispero)
New arrivals of superior varieties
a must have delicious fruit that is easy to grow!

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...the fruit has gray-brown rough textured skin and pinkish-brown, moist, soft and delicious flesh that tastes like a pear soaked in brown sugar....

...most often Sapodilla fruit are eaten fresh. After the peel is removed, fruit is cut in half and the flesh is eaten with a spoon. It is an ideal dessert fruit, since the inedible skin remains firm enough to serve as a "shell".

Sapodilla flesh can be used in many exotic recepies, from cooking to deserts...

 

Achras (manilkara) zapota-
Sapodilla, Ciku, Naseberry, Nispero, Brown Sugar Fruit

...for centuries, Sapodilla has been one of the most popular and most productive tropical fruit trees in the world....

GREAT CONTAINER FRUIT
or small garden specimen

...slow-growing, long-lived medium-size tree, upright, elegant and dense...

Grafted trees start fruiting right away!

Superior grafted varieties in stock:

Makok - BUY NOW
Long, pointed fruit, and one of the best tasting in the world. Native to Thailand. Excellent variety for homeowners - the tree is a small compact grower, perfect for limited spaces. The pulp is smooth and brown with a sweet aroma. It ripens from May to November.

Oxkutzcab - BUY NOW
"Gigantic sapodilla", originally from Oxkutzcab (Yucatan). Extremely large fruit (up to 28 oz). Speckled, light-colored skin. Flesh brown, excellent taste. Heavily productive tree. Gives high yields from May to September.

Silas Woods - BUY NOW
An outstanding variety. The tree has dwarf growth habit (under 20 ft in the ground) and adapts well to a container. Highly productive, trees are loaded with fruit year round, the branches often require support as they get very heavy loaded with fruits.
Perfect fruit tree for small yards and container culture!

Tikal - BUY NOW
Originated from Mexico. Ovoid fruit, fat at one end. This variety was one of the first superior commercial varieties planted in Florida. Fruit size can vary, but they can get as large as eleven ounces. Ripens from December to March.

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HAPPY GARDENING!

...fruits prolifically, at frequent intervals throughout the year. In the tropics, some cultivars bear almost continuously...

...the plant grows naturally in the calcareous marl and disintegrated limestone, and is well adapted to Florida soils; it flourishes also in different types of soil, from deep, loose, organic soil, to loam, light clay, sand or even gravel, but requires excellent drainage. It is strong, wind-resistant, highly drought-resistant, and can stand salt spray...