Sapote
Sapote or tzapotl is a Nahuatl language word for a soft, edible fruit. 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.
- Black sapote (Diospyros digyna), family Ebenaceae, a species of tree native to eastern Mexico and Central America south to Colombia.
- Green sapote, family Sapotaceae, a species from lowland southern Mexico that is closely related to mamey sapote.
- Mamey sapote (Pouteria sapota), family Sapotaceae, a species of tree native from southern Mexico to northern South America.
- Sapodilla (Manilkara zapota), family Sapotaceae, a species of tree native to Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Belize, and possibly El Salvador.
- South American sapote (Quararibea cordata = Matisia cordata), family Malvaceae, a species of tree native to the Amazon Rainforests of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
- White sapote (Casimiroa edulis), family Rutaceae, a species of tree native to northern and central Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala.[1]
- Yellow sapote (Pouteria campechiana), family Sapotaceae, a species of tree native to Mexico and Central America.
- Chapote (Diospyros texana), family Ebenaceae, a species of tree native to the state of Texas in the United States and Northern Mexico.[2]
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Lòng mứt, a kind of vietnamese sapote
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Black sapote
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Mamey sapote
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Sapodilla (Chico Zapote in Mexico)
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South American sapote
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White sapote
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Yellow sapote
References
- ^ "Casimiroa edulis". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2009-03-26.
- ^ Watson, George (1938). "Nahuatl Words in American English". American Speech. 13 (2): 113–114.
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