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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 ...
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 ...
"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 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]
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 "miracle fruit" Synsepalum dulcificum is also placed in the Sapotaceae. Trees of the genus Palaquium ( gutta-percha ) produce an important latex with a wide variety of uses. The seeds of the tree Sideroxylon spinosum produce an edible oil , traditionally harvested in Morocco .
P. caimito grows to an average of 10 metres (33 feet) high, and can grow as high as 35 metres (115 ft) under good conditions. The leaves range from oblong to elliptical . They can be 10–20 centimetres (4–8 inches) in length and 3.5–6.5 cm ( 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 – 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) in width.