Pouteria (SP) Pouteria Campchiana

🥚 Grow Your Own Creamy Eggfruit! 🌟
The Canistel tree produces unique fruits with sweet, dry, custard-like flesh—perfect for eating fresh or using in desserts! A hardy, low-maintenance tropical tree. Order your Pouteria campechiana plant and enjoy this natural treat! 🌳

🥚 The Tropical Treasure with a Golden Secret: The Canistel (Eggfruit) Tree! 🥚

Unlock the flavor of a hidden gem from the tropics! Ivy Paradise is proud to offer the Pouteria campechiana, a remarkable fruit tree celebrated worldwide as Canistel or Eggfruit. Famous for its uniquely dry, sweet, and custard-like flesh, the Canistel is a must-have for gardeners seeking fruits that are both delicious and incredibly versatile in the kitchen. Get ready to grow your own natural pudding on a tree!

🌟 Why the Canistel (Pouteria campechiana) is a Culinary Dream:

• Uniquely Rich & Creamy Texture: The ripe flesh of the Canistel has a texture unlike any other fruit—often compared to the creamy consistency of a cooked sweet potato or the yolk of a hard-boiled egg. It is not juicy but wonderfully smooth and dense, making it perfect for eating with a spoon. 🥄

• Naturally Sweet & Nutritious: The flavor is a delightful, natural sweetness reminiscent of sweet potato, pumpkin, and marzipan. It’s a powerhouse of nutrients, particularly rich in Provitamin A (beta-carotene), niacin, and vitamin C, making it as healthy as it is delicious.

• Incredibly Versatile in the Kitchen: Beyond eating fresh, the sweet, thick flesh of the Canistel is a fantastic natural ingredient for healthy milkshakes, luxurious ice creams, rich pies, custards, and even baby food. It can be used as a sugar substitute in many recipes!

• Productive & Ornamental Tree: This evergreen tree is not only a reliable producer of beautiful, orange-yellow fruits but also adds lush, green beauty to your landscape with its glossy leaves.

• Low-Maintenance Tropical Choice: Once established, the Canistel tree is relatively drought-tolerant and resilient, making it a great fruit tree for warm climates without excessive fuss.

🌞 Canistel Tree Care Guide:

• Climate: Thrives in tropical and frost-free subtropical climates. It cannot tolerate frost.

• Sunlight: Prefers Full Sun to partial shade. More sun generally leads to better fruit production.

• Watering: Requires regular watering while young. Mature trees are quite drought-tolerant but will produce better fruit with consistent moisture during dry spells.

• Soil: Adaptable to a variety of well-draining soils, from sand to clay, but performs best in rich, loamy soil.

• Harvesting: Fruits are harvested when they turn a solid light yellow-orange and yield slightly to gentle pressure. They ripen fully off the tree at room temperature.

✨ What You’ll Receive:

• 1 Healthy, well-rooted Pouteria campechiana (Canistel) plant in a nursery pot.

• Detailed care instructions and usage ideas.

• Secure packaging for safe delivery to your doorstep.

Add a touch of tropical gold and creamy sweetness to your garden and your table.

🎯 Click ‘Add to Cart’ to plant this versatile and unique tree today!

Names in Different Languages:
Pouteria campechiana, Canistel, Eggfruit, Yellow Sapote, Tiesa, Zapote Amarillo (Spanish), Canistel (French), カニステル (Kanisuteru – Japanese).