Taxon: Pouteria campechiana (Kunth) Baehni

Common names:

• canistel   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• eggfruit-tree   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• yellow sapote   (Source: Pl Res SEAs ) – English
  
• canistelsapote   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit   (fide F Neotrop 52:383. 1990)
  
• Materials: wood   (timber fide Ency WTimber)
  

More:

View phytochemical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Mexico
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature.
• Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago. [cultivated].
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Govaerts, R. & D. G. Frodin. 2001. World checklist and bibliography of Sapotaceae.
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Long, R. W. & O. Lakela. 1971. A flora of tropical Florida. [naturalized].
• Magness, J. R. et al. 1971. Food and feed crops of the United States. IR Bull. 1.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Pennington, T. D. 1990. Sapotaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 52:380–383.
• Pennington, T. D. 1991. The genera of the Sapotaceae.
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Verheij, E. W. M. & R. E. Coronel, eds. 1991. Edible fruits and nuts. P. 2:258 in: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA).
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. [cultivated].
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Pouteria campechiana.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Pouteria campechiana.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Pouteria campechiana.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Lucuma campechiana Kunth (basionym)
  
• (=) Lucuma nervosa A. DC.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (=) Lucuma rivicoa var. angustifolia Miq.
  
• (=) Lucuma salicifolia Kunth
  
• (=) Richardella nervosa (A. DC.) Pierre
  
• (=) Richardella salicifolia (Kunth) Pierre
  

Check other web resources for Pouteria campechiana (Kunth) Baehni:

• New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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