Description
Sapodilla (scientific name: Manilkara zapota (Linn.) van Royen), a tree, 15-20 meters high, twigs dark brown, with obvious leaf marks. The leaves are alternate, densely clustered on the tops of the branches, leathery, oblong or ovate-elliptic; petioles are 1.5-3 cm long. Flowers 1-2 born in the top and leaf axils of branches; pedicels are 2-2.5 cm long, densely covered with yellowish-brown or rusty hairs; outer wheel of calyx has 3 lobes oblong ovoid; corolla white, apex with irregular fine teeth; fertile stamens It is inserted in the throat of the crown tube, filaments are filiform, and anthers are long ovate; staminodes are petal-shaped; ovary is conical; style is cylindrical, slightly thickened at base. Berry fusiform, ovoid or spherical; seeds flat. Flower and fruit period from April to September.
It is native to tropical regions of America and is cultivated in Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan (Xishuangbanna) of China. Sapodilla is a tropical fruit of the Samaria family. Because the fruit of Sapodilla looks like a human heart, it is named as Sapodilla. Because the fruit shape of Sapodilla is like a persimmon, it can also be called "Wufeng Persimmon". It is a kind of fruit with high nutritional value. The fruit is edible, sweet and delicious; the milk of the trunk is the raw material of chewing gum; the oil content of the kernel is 20%; the bark contains plant alkaloids, which can cure fever
