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Calophyllaceae
Tropical-apricot
Mammea americana
Also known as South American apricot, Santo Domingo apricot, Mammee apple, Potamocharis mamei
Tropical Plants · Flowering Plants · Native Plants · Trees & Shrubs · Tropical · Fruit Tree · Edible · Caribbean · Evergreen · Large Tree · Mammea · Subtropical · Ornamental · Rare Fruit
Tropical-apricot is a large evergreen fruit tree requiring a warm, frost-free tropical or subtropical climate with full sun and well-drained, fertile soil. It grows slowly to maturity and requires regular deep watering and periodic fertilization during the growing season. Best suited for spacious outdoor landscapes in USDA zones 10–12; it is not suitable for container growing indoors.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 8 hours
- Watering
- Water deeply until moisture drains from the bottom, then allow the top 2 inches of soil to dry before rewatering · Every 5-7 days
- Maintenance
- High
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 4–8.5
- Temperature
- -25°F to 95°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed, Division, Cutting
Hardiness
USDA 4b-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 4 ft
- Spread
- 4 ft
- Spacing
- 360 in apart
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- White
- Foliage
- Green · Coarse
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Bahamas, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Puerto Rico, Society Is.
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies, Birds
Sources: trefle
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