Pace
Pace
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Ripens: March - April
Tree Height: Up to 45 ft.
Fruit Size: 3 - 8 in.
Weighs: 1 - 2 lbs.
Cold tolerance: 32°F
More Info: A cross between the Magana and the Tazumal, 'Pace' is the #1 mamey cultivar commonly available here in Fl. It's very precocious, incredibly delicious, highly productive, and produces in early spring when few other fruits are available. It's also reported to have good cold tolerance for a mamey. Interestingly, the name has nothing to do with the English word pace. It's named after creator Pablo Lara and his wife. He used the first two letters of his name (Pa) and added the first two letters of his wife's name (Ce) to get PaCe.
Citation: HortTechnology hortte 22, 2; 10.21273/HORTTECH.22.2.263
Pouteria sapota, the mamey sapote, is a species of tree native to Cuba and Central America, naturally ranging from southern Cuba to southern Costa Rica, plus Mexico. Today, the tree is cultivated not only in Cuba, but also in Central America, the Caribbean, and South Florida for its fruit, which is commonly eaten in many Latin American countries. Mamey can be found in many Latin American communities throughout the USA, where it is made into milkshakes and ice cream among other things.
Some of its names in Latin American countries, such as mamey colorado(Cuba),[2] zapote colorado (Costa Rica) and zapote rojo (South America), refer to the reddish colour of its flesh in order to distinguish it from the unrelated but similar looking Mammea americana, whose fruit is usually called "yellow mamey" (Spanish: Mamey amarillo).[3]
The Australian and Queensland Government’s research and development programs have produced mamey sapote in Australia.