SAPOTE

also spelled Zapote, also called Marmalade Tree (species Calocarpum mammosum), plant of the sapodilla family (Sapotaceae), native to Central America but cultivated as far north as the southeastern United States. It grows to about 23 m (75 feet) tall, bears small, pinkish white flowers, and has hard, durable, reddish wood. The edible fruit is rusty brown, rather spherical, and about 510 cm (24 inches) in diameter. The reddish flesh is spicy in flavour.