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First of all, you couldn’t get much sap out of a single sapodilla tree, so we had to crisscross town, scouring streets for dilly trees.

Atemoya, black sapote and sapodilla, for example, thrive in hot, humid climates and are relatively unknown in this country, outside the areas they are grown.

Choose better gum: Chewing gum, once made from chicle derived from sapodilla trees, long ago changed.

Several more hours in the minivan took us to the Mayan ruins of Palenque, a 7th century former city-state of stone temples surrounded by centuries-old red cedar, sapodilla and mahogany trees.

Sitting back in the shade of a sapodilla tree, Jorge Zapata González takes a slow drag on his cigarette and tells a cautionary tale of revolution and betrayal.