White sapote trees may have been trendy 50 years ago, but these days they are empty-lot plants, the kind of urban flora most often seen sprouting from scattered seed in some neglected patch of ...

Green on the outside and nearly black in its center, black sapote is commonly known as chocolate pudding fruit for its creamy texture and flavor similar to chocolate. The fruit is a type of persimmon ...

It’s unclear why, but very few Americans are aware of the sweet black sapote. — -- It’s unclear why, but few Americans are aware of black sapote. It sounds sinister, yet that couldn’t be a more ...

I used to abhor the sullen approach of winter. Cold days and frigid nights, frost nipping at my tender exotic plants, many a dark day spent indoors under saturated skies and persistent mud clinging to ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 90, No. 2 (Jun., 2007), pp. 384-388 (5 pages) The authors evaluated the host status of mamey sapote, Pouteria sapota (Sapotaceae) to Anastrepha obliqua by collecting ...