Fruit & Nut Trees
Jocote de Iguana
Jocote de Iguana
Jocote de Iguana is the outlier in El Salvador's list of nine recognised jocote varieties: it is grown mainly for its wood rather than its fruit. At about 8.4 g it produces the smallest fruit of any of the named Salvadoran clones and the most sharply acid, so instead of being planted for eating it is used above all for living fence posts, a role Spondias purpurea fills across Mesoamerica because a cut stake pushed into the ground roots and grows into a living stake. Missouri Botanical Garden's regional jocote survey recorded it among the locally known types in El Salvador. It still bears an edible dry-season crop from February to April, and the fruit gets used for sour snacks and seasoning the way small wild jocotes are used in Mexico. For permaculture planting it is best understood as a boundary and fence-line tree that happens to fruit, not a fruit tree.Read more
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