Sapote

Sapote (/səˈpoʊtiː, -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]

Sapote

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

Species

From Sapotaceae

Some, but not all sapotes, come from the family Sapotaceae:^{[6]: 515, 519}

• Sapodilla,^[3][4] 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 (Pouteria campechiana) is native to Mexico and Central America.
• Mamey sapote (Pouteria sapota)^[1][2] 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^{[citation needed]}
• 
  Pouteria sapota, mamey sapote
• 
  Manilkara zapota, sapodilla
• 
  Pouteria campechiana, yellow sapote

From other families

• Black sapote (Diospyros nigra: Ebenaceae),^[1] from eastern Mexico south to Colombia, is probably the original Aztec tzapotl.^{[citation needed]}
• White sapote (Casimiroa edulis: Rutaceae)^[1] is native to northern and central Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala.^[7]
• South American sapote (Quararibea cordata: Malvaceae)^[5] is native to the Amazon rainforests of Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
• Sun sapote (Licania 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