nice green/whitish flowers, so small one can miss them... thanks for showing them...
usha di ===== On Dec 19, 4:34 pm, raman <[email protected]> wrote: > White Sapote is a species of tropical fruiting tree, native to eastern > Mexico and Central America south to Costa Rica. Mature trees range from > 5-16 m tall and are evergreen. The leaves are alternate, digitately > compound with 3-5 leaflets. The leaflets are 6-13 cm long and 2.5-5 cm > broad with an entire margin, and the leaf stalks is 10-15 cm long. Flowers > are yellow-green and not scented. They are grouped in panicles. The fruit > is an ovoid drupe, 5-10 cm in diameter, with a thin, inedible skin turning > from green to yellow when ripe, and an edible pulp, which can range in > flavor from bland to banana-like to peach to pear to vanilla flan. The pulp > can be creamy-white in green skin varieties or a beige- yellow in yellow > skin varieties. It contains from one to five seeds that are said to have > narcotic properties. > > Raman > > White Sapote Tree - 0000.jpg > 43KViewDownload > > White Sapote Tree - Canopy.jpg > 125KViewDownload > > White Sapote Tree - Flower.jpg > 38KViewDownload > > White Sapote Tree - Fruit.jpg > 39KViewDownload > > White Sapote Tree - Leaf.jpg > 47KViewDownload > > White Sapote Tree - Tender Leaf.jpg > 40KViewDownload
