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 ...

Antonio Izumi emailed his concern for an exotic fruit tree: “I wanted to ask you about my white sapote tree, purchased about two years ago. As recommended, I planted it in full sun, yet it nearly died ...

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 ...

It looks just like rich dark chocolate, agreed members of the Laila Circle of the Melbourne Garden Club. I had just sliced a fully ripe “Chocolate Pudding fruit” and put it on the breakfast buffet ...

The collected sap is boiled, stirred and kneaded in large pots until the sap thickens and becomes elastic. Natural chewing gum is made from the sap of the chico zapote, trees, which grow near Tulum in ...