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THE SAPOTE OR MAMEY COLORADO. 
(Achradelpha mammosa (L.) 0. F. Cook. See S. P. I. No. 47516.) 
In southern Mexico and Central America the sapote grows wild in the forests, and the fruits are 
gathered by the Indians. They are very sweet and somewhat squashlike in flavor, but they 
are universally liked by residents of the Tropics. They can be made into an excellent 
sherbet and a rich jam. It is recorded that. the army of Cor tez, when making the historic 
march from Mexico to Honduras, was saved from starvation by these fruits. (Photo- 
graphed by Wilson Popenoe, Havana, Cuba, July 30, 1914; P16114FS, reduced.) 
