Mexican Fruit Trees Red Mombin fruit tree

Red Mombin fruit tree (English), Jocote che (Maya), Ciruela (Spanish),  Spondias purpurea, Anacardiaceae Family. This is a lovely tree to watch as fruits ripe, Maya people use the bark for medicinal remedies. Trees go dormant in winter and drop all of their leaves before flowering; fruits follow in 45-60 days. The fruits and flower grow right on the Ciruelo branches. These hog plum trees' bear fruit from May to September. Ciruelas are eaten green, ripe, or cook in a Mayan Pipian.

Mexican Fruit Trees Sugar Apple

Saramuyo (Spanish), Sugar Apple (English), Annona squamosa, Annonaceae Family, native to Mexico. Tropical fruit tree blooms from February to April, by June fruits are ripe and ready to eat; aromatic white pulp with a shite transparent meat texture that covers many hard black seeds, each pocket of the fruit's pulp has rich aromatic sweet taste, healthy snack!

Mexican Fruit Trees - Cherimoya

Annona (Spanish), Cherimoya (English), Op (Maya) Annona reticulata, Annonaceae Family, native to Mexico. Tropical fruit tree blooms in the summer, fruits are ripe by October and November highly aromatic white pulp with a wet transparent meat that covers many almond size seeds; texture is velvety with a rich sweet taste.