Grafted
Black sapote ‘Wilson’
The chocolate pudding fruit. Fully soft flesh is mild, cocoa-brown, and sweet enough to eat with a spoon or blend.
This variety
The fruit
The chocolate pudding fruit. Fully soft flesh is mild, cocoa-brown, and sweet enough to eat with a spoon or blend.
Taste, season, cold, and how to plant this one.
- Taste
- The chocolate pudding fruit. Fully soft flesh is mild, cocoa-brown, and sweet enough to eat with a spoon or blend.
- Ripens
- Mostly winter. Picked too soon it is astringent. Wait until the fruit is olive-black and very soft, like a water balloon that still holds.
- Zones
- Zones 9 to 11.
- Hardiness
- More cold-tolerant than sapodilla. A light frost is not the end of a Wilson. A hard freeze still needs a cover on a young tree.
- Size
- A medium tree, often 20 to 30 feet. Less enormous than a sapodilla left unpruned.
- Tips
- People throw unripe fruit away and decide they hate it. Patience is the recipe. Wilson is the selection to ask for if you want a named tree.
- Pollination
- Self-fruitful.