Sapote

Sapote

Black sapote
Type	Fruit
Region or state	Mexico, Central America and northern parts of South America
Media: Sapote

Sapote or zapote¹ (/səˈpoʊtiː, -eɪ, -ə/;²³⁴ from Nahuatl: tzapotl⁵) is a term for a soft, edible fruit.² 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.²⁶

Some, but not all sapotes, come from the family Sapotaceae:^{7: 515, 519}

• Sapodilla,⁴⁵ also called naseberry (Manilkara zapota) is native to Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Belize, and possibly El Salvador. The Sapotaceae were named after a synonym of this species.
• Yellow sapote (Lucuma campechiana) is native to Mexico and Central America.
• Mamey sapote (Pouteria sapota) is from southern Mexico to northern South America.⁸
• Green sapote (Pouteria viridis) is native to lowland southern Mexico.

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  Manilkara zapota, Hồng xiêm, a kind of Vietnamese sapote
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  Pouteria sapota, mamey sapote
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  Manilkara zapota, sapodilla
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  Lucuma campechiana, yellow sapote

• Black sapote (Diospyros nigra: Ebenaceae),² from eastern Mexico south to Colombia, is probably the original Aztec tzapotl.
• White sapote (Casimiroa edulis: Rutaceae)² is native to northern and central Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala.⁹
• South American sapote (Quararibea cordata: Malvaceae)⁶ is native to the Amazon rainforests of Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
• Sun sapote (Moquilea platypus: Chrysobalanaceae) is native to southern Mexico south to Colombia.

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  Casimiroa edulis, white sapote
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  Quararibea cordata, South American sapote