The flavour is mild and sweet , resembling a combination of peach, banana and pear with a smooth texture. Medium to heavy bearing. Starts fruiting 4-5 years after planting.
Habit - Excellent specimen tree, bushy and semi-weeping. Rich green foliage with a short semi-deciduous period after flowering.
Size - Small to medium height 4 x 4m.
Pollination - Self-fertile. Pollinated fruit grow largest and have 1-5 large seeds embedded in the flesh. Unpollinated fruit do form but these seedless fruit are generally much smaller.
Harvest - Pick the fruit while firm and changing colour from green to lighter shade of green. If picked too soon they will be astringent and can be most unpleasant. Fruit that are mature enough to pick can be released from the tree with a gentle twist. The skin of the Casimiroa is paper thin so the fruit are better hand picked as they damage and spoil very easily if left to drop. Once harvested, the fruit will ripen quickly. Cool storage will allow them to be kept up to 2 weeks, but this ability will vary from variety to variety. Main fruiting season May to June.