MAMMEE or MAMMEE-APPLE or ST. DOMINGO "APRICOT" or SOUTH-AMERICAN APRICOT ,LUCUMA MAMMOSA, MAMMEE, MARMALADE TREE, SAPOTA,MAMMEA AMERICANA guttiferae

Ward, Artemas. 1923. The Encyclopedia of Food. New York, Number Fifty, Union Square.

is the fruit of a large and very beautiful tree of the American tropics. It is generally round, with a diameter of three to six inches, its thick leathery rind of russet color, and its flesh bright yellow and juicy. The rind and the one or more large seeds are bitter, but the flesh is aromatic and pleasing, both raw and preserved, especially in the latter form. Its flavor suggests the apricot.

is a large, generally oval, fruit of the sapodilla group. Good specimens average a pound and upwards in weight. The skin is coarse in texture, and light coffee-colored and granulated in appearance; the flesh is yellow or salmon-crimson, a good deal like that of a soft muskmelon in texture, and enclosing one, two or three long, generally shiny-black seeds.

Hedrick, U.P. editor. 1919. Sturtevant's Notes on Edible Plants. Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1919 II. Albany, J.B Lyon Company, State Printers. [References Available]

LUCUMA MAMMOSA, MAMMEE, MARMALADE TREE, SAPOTA

is a plant of the West Indies and South America. in the West Indies, this tree is cultivated for its fruit. The fruit is four or five inches in diameter and is covered with a rough, russet-colored bark; the pulp is dark yellowish, soft, sweet, tasting not unlike a very ripe pear. It makes an excellent marmalade but, eaten raw, has an aperient quality.

**MAMMEA AMERICANA guttiferae, MAMMEE APPLE, SOUTH AMERICAN APRICOT**

is a plant of American tropics. This fine tree of the Antilles is cultivated for its fruit there, as well as in some parts of tropical Africa and Asia. The fruit often attains the size of a child's head and is of a yellow color. The outer rind and the pulp which immediately surrounds the seeds are very bitter, but the intermediate flesh is sweet and aromatic and is eaten, cut into slices and steeped in wine or made into preserves of various kinds.

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