Help ID

[clannewton]

Does anyone recognize this tree?  Is it a tropical fruit tree.  I don't want to continue growing it if it is not.

[ftmyersfruit]

Look up Pouteria sapota and see if its the same. Hard to see on a phone.

[horseshoe_bayou]

looks like mamey sapote. https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/sapote_ars.html

[clannewton]

I think you guys are right.  It does look like the mamey sapote.  Great!  I love the mameys so it is definitely staying!  I had quite a few trees in containers that I had moved around during the winter to try and protect and the id tags got lost and I couldn't remember what it was.  I am glad it is not a weed that I have been nurturing for the last couple of years.

[michsu]

here's my mamey sapote.. haha, still smaller than yours but just for comparison.. it sure looks like it! 

[clannewton]

Thanks for posting the picture. That looks exactly how mine looked at that size.  all the other pictures I have seen oline all show much larger matue trees.  this helps me be a little more confident with the verification.

[fyliu]

Welcome! Feel free to ask more questions. You'll be growing mango in no time if you're not already.

What's up with people growing stuff without knowing what they are?   

Sure, clannewton is new but there's another guy that gets annona seedlings from somewhere and tries to find out what they are. Do relatives drop them off and say they're X, but X could mean one of 10 things? I'm just curious to know.

Keep asking these and other important questions

[stuartdaly88]

I think it's a case of having upwards of a couple hundred plants name tags can go missing and memory can fail you!
What gets me worse though is planting seeds and being sure they snuffed it so reusing the soil and months later something pops up and I'm like crap wtf is that now???

[bsbullie]

Thanks for posting the picture. That looks exactly how mine looked at that size.  all the other pictures I have seen oline all show much larger matue trees.  this helps me be a little more confident with the verification.

If that is a seedling,  which it appears to be from the pictures, you may want to seek out a grafted tree (you should have little issues finding one).