Sapodilla Alano Tropical Fruit Tree – Grafted – 3 Feet Tall – Container Ready

Bring the Tropics Home with Sapodilla Alano Fruit Trees

Looking to add a touch of the exotic to your garden? The Sapodilla Alano tropical fruit tree is an excellent choice! These trees are known for their compact size, making them perfect for even the smallest gardens and ideal for container growing. Imagine harvesting your own sweet, delicious fruit right from your patio or balcony.

These are grafted Sapodilla Alano trees. The fruit has gray-brown rough textured skin and pinkish-brown, moist, soft and delicious flesh that tastes like a pear soaked in brown sugar. Alano sapodilla trees are relatively slow-growing and long-lived, with upright, elegant, and distinctly pyramidal form. They feature thick, glossy green leaves and small, bell-like flowers borne on slender stalks.

Benefits of Growing Sapodilla Alano:

• Compact size ideal for small gardens and containers
• Delicious fruit with a unique brown sugar flavor
• Attractive, upright growth habit
• Prolific fruiting at frequent intervals throughout the year
• Grafted for faster fruit production

Sapodilla trees fruit prolifically, at frequent intervals throughout the year. In the tropics, some cultivars bear almost continuously. The fruits mature 4 to 6 months after flowering. Most often eaten fresh. After the peel is removed, the fruit is sliced into pieces which are often carved into decorative shapes. Sapodilla fruit is usually cut in half and the flesh is eaten with a spoon. It is an ideal dessert fruit as the skin, which is not eaten, remains firm enough to serve as a shell. The flesh may be scooped out and added to fruit cups or salads. A dessert sauce is made by adding orange juice, and topping with whipped cream. Sapodilla flesh may also be blended into an egg custard mix before baking. The fruit is sometimes fried or stewed with lime juice or ginger. Mashed sapodilla pulp can be added to pancake batter and bread mix before baking. Cooking with sugar changes the brown color of the flesh to a pleasing red.

This is a grafted plant, approximately 3 feet tall, and comes in a 3-gallon pot. It resembles the images shown above. Plants are shipped without the container, carefully wrapped and secured in our packaging. We appreciate your business! Please be aware that these plants are sensitive to cold weather. It is the buyer’s responsibility to monitor the weather conditions between California and your location at the time of purchase. We are obligated to ship after purchase.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How tall will this sapodilla tree get? This Alano variety is compact, typically reaching 10-15 feet, making it perfect for smaller spaces.
2. What kind of soil does a sapodilla tree need? Sapodilla trees thrive in well-draining soil, ideally sandy loam with a slightly acidic to neutral pH (6.0-7.5).
3. How much sunlight does this tree need? To fruit well, the Alano sapodilla requires at least 6-8 hours of direct sunlight daily.
4. How long does it take for a grafted sapodilla to produce fruit? Grafted trees can begin fruiting in 1-3 years, which is much faster than seed-grown trees.
5. What is the return policy if the plant arrives damaged? We offer a 14-day return policy if the item arrives not as described. Please contact us with photos of the damage for a refund.