CHAPTER XXX 



SAPODILLA, MAMMEE SAPOTA, WHITE 

 SAPOTA, STAR APPLE, COCOA PLUM AND 

 EGG FRUIT (or "Ti-es") 



THESE fruits come under the SapotacecB and are a 

 very delicious group. The Sapodilla, or Sapodilla 

 Plum, or "Dilly," {Achras sapota) at first sight invariably 

 reminds one of a russet apple, though in flavour it is rather 

 a combination of pear and peach and Irhe soft pulp is 

 coarse-grained. Its homely, rusty coat is a deceptive 

 covering for it is an excellent fruit, uncooked or preserved, 

 and may be treated very much as are peaches. 



The Wild "Dilly" {Mimusops Sieberi) is a delicious, 

 berry-like little fruit very much liked. 



The Mammee Sapota or Lucuma mammosa, has rather 

 unusual fruit which much varies in size — ^from that of a 

 muskmelon down to that of a goose-egg-^and the bright, 

 reddish pulp, which has been compared to both pumpkin- 

 pie and to muskmelon, is eaten uncooked, just as it is. 

 It contains from one to three long seeds. 



The White Sapota (Casimiroa edulis) is about the size 

 of a peach and resembles it somewhat in flavour. 



The Star Apple (Chrysophyllmn cainito) varies in colour 

 with variety, (being purple or green), described by Kingsley 

 as "an evergreen peach, shedding from the under side of 

 every leaf a golden light — call it not shade." It is larger, 

 however, more like an apple in form and smoothness of 

 skin. Its star-shaped core contains numerous brown seeds, 

 rather large and flat. The flavour is somewhat peculiar, 



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