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POUTERIA CAMPECHIANA
Canistel, Eggfruit, Lucuma, Nervosa, Yiessas
This small-to-medium evergreen tree from Central and Northern South America
makes a good landscape tree but it cannot stand frost. The fruit is variable in
size and shape, with a thin yellow to orange skin covering a dry to moist
pulp,sweet, musky, rich and generally either loved or despised. Eaten fresh or
cooked in place of yam, it is picked when mature and allowed to set until soft
and ripe. Propagated by seed or grafting.
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