Sapote

Sapote

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

Sapote or zapote (/səˈpoʊtiː, -eɪ, -ə/; from Nahuatl: tzapotl) is a term 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.

Species

From Sapotaceae

Some, but not all sapotes, come from the family Sapotaceae:

• Sapodilla, 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.
• Green sapote (Pouteria viridis) is native to lowland southern Mexico.

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

From other families

• Black sapote (Diospyros nigra: Ebenaceae), from eastern Mexico south to Colombia, is probably the original Aztec tzapotl.
• White sapote (Casimiroa edulis: Rutaceae) is native to northern and central Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala.
• South American sapote (Quararibea cordata: Malvaceae) 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.

• 
  Casimiroa edulis, white sapote
• 
  Quararibea cordata, South American sapote

See also

• Chapote (Diospyros texana: Ebenaceae) is native to the lower Rio Grande valley region in Texas and Mexico