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. This grafted sapodilla tree offers a taste of the tropics and is a rewarding addition for any fruit enthusiast.

These are grafted Sapodilla Alano trees, ensuring faster fruit production compared to seed-grown varieties. The fruit boasts a gray-brown, rough-textured skin and pinkish-brown, moist, soft, and deliciously sweet flesh that evokes the taste of a pear soaked in brown sugar. Alano sapodilla trees are relatively slow-growing and long-lived, developing an upright, elegant, and distinctly pyramidal form. They feature thick, glossy green leaves and small, bell-like flowers borne on slender stalks, adding ornamental value to your outdoor space.

Benefits of Growing Sapodilla Alano:

• Compact size ideal for small gardens and containers, maximizing your growing potential.
• Delicious fruit with a unique brown sugar flavor, offering a gourmet experience.
• Attractive, upright growth habit enhances the aesthetic appeal of your landscape.
• Prolific fruiting at frequent intervals throughout the year, ensuring a steady supply of fresh fruit.
• Grafted for faster fruit production, allowing you to enjoy harvests sooner.

Sapodilla trees fruit prolifically, at frequent intervals throughout the year. The fruits typically mature 4 to 6 months after flowering. Most often eaten fresh, the fruit can be enjoyed by simply removing the peel and slicing into pieces. The flesh may also be scooped out and added to fruit cups or salads. For a delightful dessert, blend the flesh into an egg custard mix before baking or stew it with lime juice or ginger. Mashed sapodilla pulp can even be incorporated into pancake batter and bread mix, offering versatile culinary uses for this unique tropical fruit.

This is a grafted plant, approximately 3 feet tall, and comes ready for container planting. Plants are shipped carefully wrapped and secured in our packaging to ensure safe arrival. Please be aware that these plants are sensitive to cold weather; it is the buyer’s responsibility to monitor local weather conditions. We are committed to shipping your plant promptly after purchase, bringing the joy of homegrown tropical fruit to your home.

Frequently Asked Questions

• How tall will this Sapodilla Alano tree get? This Alano variety is compact, typically reaching 10-15 feet, making it perfect for smaller spaces and container growing.
• What kind of soil does a Sapodilla tree need to thrive? Sapodilla trees flourish in well-draining soil, ideally sandy loam with a slightly acidic to neutral pH (6.0-7.5) for optimal growth.
• How much sunlight does this tropical fruit tree require for fruit production? To fruit well, the Alano sapodilla needs at least 6-8 hours of direct sunlight daily.
• How long does it take for a grafted Sapodilla tree to produce fruit? Grafted trees can begin fruiting in 1-3 years, which is significantly faster than trees grown from seed.
• What is the return policy if the plant arrives damaged during shipping? 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 or replacement.