This small brown furry fruit looks similar to the outside of a Kiwifruit. The rich brown flesh has a soft melting texture and is very sweet with a taste like caramel or brown sugar. They are best eaten fresh by spooning the chilled flesh from the thin skin. The flesh is delicious mixed with orange juice and topped with cream.
Fruit look like potatoes but have light brown soft very sweet flesh. Flesh is sometimes gritty and contains black seeds. Ripe fruit taste like sweetened cooked pear. Very hardy Subtropical fruit tree.
A Singapore variety that is vigorous to 4m tall. Flavour is very sweet, slightly gritty though not unpleasant. Average weight 100 - 115gms. Sapodillas are highly prized in Asia with their sweet brown sugar cinnamon flavoured fruit that look like potatoes.
175mm | $34.00 AU | In Production | 
This variety originates from Singapore. It has attractive red brown flesh when ripe with a mild flavour, the flesh is slightly gritty like a pear. Fruits are oval and weigh 50-100 g. Sapodillas are highly prized in Asia with their sweet brown sugar cinnamon flavoured fruit that look like potatoes.
175mm | $34.00 AU | In Production |
Very sweet variety from Thailand, heavy cropper of small-medium sized fruit. Sapodillas are highly prized in Asia with their sweet brown sugar cinnamon flavoured fruit that look like potatoes.
175mm | $34.00 AU | In Production |
Selected cultivar from Philippines. Very sweet, medium size, elliptical with light brown skin. Sapodillas are highly prized in Asia with their sweet brown sugar cinnamon flavoured fruit that look like potatoes
175mm | $34.00 AU | In Production |
The Prolific has smooth pinkish-tan flesh when ripe. The fruits are round to conical and are long and broad, they tend to loose much of the furry texture on the skin when they are ripe. Trees are heavy bearers.
175mm | $34.00 AU | Seeking Propagation Material |
Originating from Malasia, the variety C55 is a medium sized fruit. Excellent backyard variety with a light brown skin and a delicious sweet flavour. The size is similar to the Tropical sapodilla, averaging 60-70 grams. The flesh has a slightly gritty texture to it like a pear.
175mm | $34.00 AU | Seeking Propagation Material |
| Height | Frost tol. | Pollination req'd | Evergreen/Deciduous | Harvest period |
| 3-6 | Low | No | Evergreen | December - March |
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Incorporate 5-10 kg of limetone into planting hole and another 10-15 kg spread in a 1-1.2 meter circle on ground and be sure to pack it thick like mulch up near the trunk | Recher - Dorroughby, NSW 16-Aug-2006
Give them worm castings fertizler/soil amendment every six months to pervent any kind of pests; especially scale. (nasty bastards). Outside of that , they seem to do well especially with organic fertilizers. Until I'm in your area code... | Jorge L. - Los Angeles, CA 16-Aug-2006
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