Fruit & Nut Trees
Tazumal
Tazumal
Tazumal, named for the Maya archaeological site in El Salvador, traces to Salvadoran seed brought to Florida in 1949 and was selected and released from the Tropical Research and Education Center in Homestead in 1975. Its distinguishing trait is timing: it ripens in January and February, the deep-winter slot in the Florida mamey calendar, and UF/IFAS names it as one of four cultivars to plant together (with Pace, Magana and Pantin) to spread harvest across the whole year. It is also unusual in carrying one to two seeds per fruit rather than the single seed typical of the species. In a five-year Puerto Rico trial it produced the highest total number and weight of fruit per hectare of six cultivars tested, though the individual fruit ran small and multi-seeded enough to hurt marketability. UF/IFAS lists it as cold tolerant and precocious but stops short of recommending it for the home landscape.Read more
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