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Diospyros nigra, the black sapote, is a species of persimmon. Common names include chocolate pudding fruit, black soapapple and (in Spanish) zapote prieto. The tropical fruit tree is native to Mexico, Central America, and Colombia. [1] The common name sapote refers to any soft, edible fruit. Black sapote is not related to white sapote nor mamey ...
Sapote (/ s ə ˈ p oʊ t iː,-eɪ,-ə /; [1] [2] [3] from Nahuatl: tzapotl [4]) is a term for a soft, edible fruit. [1] The word is incorporated into the common names of several unrelated fruit-bearing plants native to Mexico, Central America and northern parts of South America. [1] [5] It is also known in Caribbean English as soapapple ...
"Cnephasia" jactatana (black-lyre leafroller moth) An economically significant plant pathogen infecting many Diospyros species – D. hispida , kaki persimmon ( D. kaki ), date-plum ( D. lotus ), Texas persimmon ( D. texana ), Coromandel ebony ( D. melanoxylon ) and probably others – is the sac fungus Pseudocercospora kaki , which causes a ...
The leaves are pointed at both ends, 4 to 12 inches in length, and grow in clusters at the ends of branches. [15] The mamey sapote is related to other sapotes such as sapodilla (Manilkara zapota), abiu (P. caimito), and canistel (P. campechiana), but unrelated to the black sapote (Diospyros digyna) [16] and white sapote (Casimiroa edulis). [17 ...
Manilkara zapota, commonly known as sapodilla (Spanish: [ˌ s a p o ˈ ð i ʝ a]), [4] sapote, chicozapote, chicoo, chicle, naseberry, nispero, or soapapple, among other names, [5] [6]: 515 is an evergreen tree native to southern Mexico and Central America.
The seeds, leaves, bark, ripe, and unripe fruit of the persimmon. Diospyros texana is a multi-trunked small tree or large shrub [2] with a lifespan of 30 to 50 years. [4] It usually grows to 3 m (9.8 ft) in height, but can reach 12 m (39 ft) on good sites. [5]
The fruit of D. texana are black, subglobose berries with a diameter of 1.5–2.5 cm (5 ⁄ 8 –1 in) that ripen in August. [24] The fleshy berries become edible when they turn dark purple or black, at which point they are sweet and can be eaten from the hand or made into pudding or custard.
A group of tropical fruit. Varieties of tropical fruit include: Abiu; Açaí; Acerola (West Indian cherry; Barbados cherry) Achachairú (Bolivian mangosteen; achacha) Ackee; Atemoya; Avocado (alligator pear) Banana; Bengal currant,(Christ's thorn,[1] Carandas plum, Karonda, Karanda and Kanna) Biribá (lemon meringue pie fruit) Black sapote ...