Huge Mamey Cropped in Matanzas, Cuba

 

Kind of spellbinded Eneida Matos Gonzalez looked at the size of a mamee of the mamey tree they had planted 16 years ago in the yard of her house. When they finally cropped it, they found out it weighed nine pounds. What?, she asked. "Indeed more than nine pounds," they told her. Eneida that lives at 36, Calle L, between Brigadier and Rojas final, says she had planted the two mamey seeds her husband was given, but got this one only. "I just water it, it's not a grafted tree. The fruits have almost always been this big indeed", she said, and added that "the smallest fruits have always weighed two and a half pounds." The giant mamey now cropped has risen much attention in the neighborhood; that is why, people dropped by to measure it and talk of it. "People told me it was bigger than a tile; that's why, we put it in a tin of paint, and we amazed found it was indeed huge. No doubt this is indeed a true mamey! Everybody says. The mamey or zapote is a species of the sapotaceas family. Mamey, which is originally a Taino word, is the corruptiuon of the original "mami". This tree used to be very common in Cuba, but today it has become an exotic fruit. / By Yunielis Moliner Isasi Radio 26 - Photo: Renier Mejias / Translated by Radio La Voz de la Victoria.