Mamey sapote

Pouteria sapota

fruit

A large oval fruit with rough brown skin and creamy, sweet, salmon-coloured flesh, from a tall tropical tree 15 to 45 metres high; with a spoon, in milkshakes or ice cream. It provides carotenoids.

Origin

Central America

Season (United States)

May to July · grows in your region

Preparation

The skin and the large shiny seed are left; it is ripe when the flesh gives under your thumb, salmon right up to the skin.

Did you know?

It is propagated by grafting: grafted, the tree fruits in 3 to 5 years, against 7 or more from seed — which no longer germinates after a month.