Description: The Sapodilla tree is also known as Sapodilla or Chiku (G.). It is an edible fruit tree native to Central America, being common in India. In the neighborhood of Quinta da Vitória a small Manilkara zapota with about 5 cm was found belonging to a family resident in the neighborhood of Quinta da Vitória, who currently lives in England. (*)
Provided by: Caussiccumar Gechande, a Mozambique-born Portuguese.
Present Location: It did not survive the transplanting.
Last revision date: March 2016
(I) Numbering in accordance with the archive of trees and plants identified in the Quinta da Vitoria 2012 and 2013.
(II) Mabberley, David J. Mabberley´s Plant-Book: A Portable Dictionary of Plants, their Classifications and Uses. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
(*)Testimonies of residents gathered in a set of recorded conversations in the neighborhood of Quinta da Vitória and after the demolition in Lisbon, Loures and London between July 2012 and October 2014.
(G.) Word in Gujarate language.
