Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here's the scoop on this tropical treat. "Black sapote, also called black soap apple, is a close cousin to the persimmon and is ...

While living in Mexico for a year, I discovered this fabulous fruit: mamey sapote. On the surface, there's nothing impressive about it—it just looks like a big kiwi—but you have to open it to discover ...

The black sapote (Diospyros nigra), a highly nutritious and very low-calorie fruit, is one of nature's most curious foods. However, not many people in the U.S. and Europe have heard of it, partly ...

Once in a while, I forsake the edibles we can grow here for more exotic fare. Today's column is another of those excursions into the less familiar. We'll consider the various fruits confusingly called ...

It’s nickname is the “chocolate pudding” fruit. When ripe and edible, the mushy pulp is a rich brown color. Originally, the tropical fruit came from Mexico. Although it grows well in South Florida, ...

White sapote: See that thing that looks a little like an underripe green plum? Leave it out on your counter for a day or two and it will transform as if by magic into a sweet fruit with the creamy ...

White sapote trees may have been trendy 50 years ago, but these days they are empty-lot plants, the kind of urban flora most often seen sprouting from scattered seed in some neglected patch of ...

A sweet and delicious tropical fruit, chikoo is armed with a plethora of nutritional benefits. Chikoo is also known as sapota, sapodilla, nose berry, sapodilla plum or chikoo sapote. Chikoo fruit is a ...

I used to abhor the sullen approach of winter. Cold days and frigid nights, frost nipping at my tender exotic plants, many a dark day spent indoors under saturated skies and persistent mud clinging to ...