Mamey is most delicious. It is my wife's favorite fruit.
Felix

I have to try one!

I forgot to mention that mamey has only one seed. Big,oval
black and shiny.

The Mamay ripened two days ago. The flesh is similar to avocado but more dense. It was very sweet and very rich. I found that I could only eat a small wedge at a time. My sister and niece and mother did not like it.

[I have a theory about that; I think we usually don't like new things and after we have them a few times they can, and often do, grow on us. My mother used to say that cilantro tasted like dirty tennis shoes and now she can't get enough of it.]

Very lovely coral red color. I did not really get the rose/almond flavor that I read about on the web somewhere. Perhaps they are better just off the tree? The closest flavor that it resembled to me was a canistel (sp?) or egg-fruit that I ate about two years ago that I thought was great. I also tried it with a squeeze of lime and I liked that even better.

It was sooo sweet that I thought maybe the flesh could be blended with egg and milk or cream and baked like flan. Yum!

I meant to say cherry/almond not rose//almond.

They taste like a baked sweet potato to me. Maybe with the taste of honey and a little spice.
No cooking necessary.
Delicious!

thonotorose,
There is Mamey flan recipe on the web. Just do a search.
In January I went to a Cuban restaurant in Coconut Grove
and tried it. It was yummy. My Sylvia makes many kinds of
Flan which she has perfected but her recipes are secrets.
I also really like mamey in batidos (milkshakes),which
is a no no now for me.
Felix

Mamey is absolutely wonderful in a milkshake.

Just the most deliciously sweet sweet potato you can imagine.
The tree looks just like Magnolia grandiflora but without the fuzzy backside.

I am so glad this thread came back up. I have been looking at that pot of great soil on the potting bench and wondering what the hay I planted there. Lol...

Mameys are great, I planted a 'pantin' aka 'key west' grafted variety a few years ago and it looks like this year it may bring fruit to bear, it has about 55-60 peach size fruits on tree. The fruit takes 18 months to ripen, and the seeds do not come true to the mother plant, it is recommended to plant grafted variety. Try to grow the seeds and maybe you can graft your seedlings with a scion from a friends tree.

Fruit is awesome and very expensive, incredibly rich and tasty...

I know that many seeds do not bear true to the mother, However, surely Ma Nature allows this to happen sometimes, don't you think? The really great ones had to come from somewhere... Anyway, I like the mystery of the wait, too.

I'm sure a certain percentage are extremely close genetically to their parent. Often fruit which don't come true to type, the majority is inferior to their parent. But, there is a slight chance of the fruit even being superior to the parent. That is how new varieties are chosen. I planted a Pantin just a couple weeks ago to replace my barbados cherry, which I found not good enough to deserve a space.

Gary