By Amy Grant If you live in the warmer latitudes, you may have a sapodilla tree in your yard. After waiting patiently for the tree to blossom and set fruit, you go to check its progress only to find that the fruit is dropping from the sapodilla plant. Why do the baby sapodillas fall from the tree and what sapodilla tree care might prevent this in the future? Why Baby Sapodillas Fall Quite probably a Yucatan native, sapodilla is a slow growing, upright, long-living evergreen tree. Tropical specimens can grow to 100 feet, but grafted cultivars are much smaller at 30-50 feet in height. Its foliage is medium green, glossy and alternate, and makes a lovely ornamental addition to the landscape, not to mention its delicious fruit. The tree blooms with small, bell-shaped flowers several times per year, although it will only yield fruit twice a year. A milky latex,
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