Taxon: Manilkara zapota (L.) P. Royen

Common names:

• chicle   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• naseberry   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• sapodilla   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• sapote   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• sapotier   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• sapotillier   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Breiapfelbaum   (Source: Zander ed14 ) – German
  
• Kaugummibaum   (Source: S. Reichel, p.c.) – German
  
• Sapodillbaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Sapote   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• sabojira   (Source: not available) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• chico sapote   (Source: Cornucopia ) – Spanish
  
• níspero   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• zapote   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• zapotillo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit; gum/mucilage   (gum extracted from stem, base of chewing gum fide Ency CNatIn)
  
• Materials: beads; wood   (fide Bot Beads World; as web document; Ency WTimber, timber)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Mexico
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Belize; El Salvador [native status uncertain]; Guatemala; Nicaragua

• widely cultivated in tropics

References:

• Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature. (Ency WTimber)
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage. (Zander ed14)
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. (Cornucopia)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Govaerts, R. & D. G. Frodin. 2001. World checklist and bibliography of Sapotaceae. (L Sapotaceae)
• Hackett, C. & J. Carolane. 1982. Edible Horticultural Crops. (Edible HC)
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database - on-line resource. (New World Fruits)
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption. (L Edible Pl)
• Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. (Ency CNatIn)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Moore, H. E., Jr. & W. T. Stearn. 1967. The identity of Achras zapota L. and the names for the sapodilla and the sapote. Taxon 16:383.
• Pennington, T. D. 1990. Sapotaceae. In: Organization for Flora Neotropica, ed., Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 52:64.
• Pennington, T. D. 1991. The genera of the Sapotaceae. (Gen Sapot)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Reichel, S. 1998. pers. comm. [re. German common names].
• Reitz, R., ed. 1965–. Flora ilustrada catarinense. (F SCatarin) [= Achras zapota L.].
• Verheij, E. W. M. & R. E. Coronel, eds. 1991. Edible fruits and nuts. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 2:220.
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama. (F Panama)
• Yaacob, O. & S. Subhadrabandhu. 1995. The production of economic fruits in South-East Asia. (PrEcFr)
• Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Manilkara zapota.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Manilkara zapota. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Achradelpha mammosa O. F. Cook
  (previously associated with 16 accessions)
• (≡) Achras mammosa L.
  
• (≡) Achras zapota L. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 25 accessions)
• (=) Achras zapota var. zapotilla Jacq.
  
• (=) Achras zapotilla (Jacq.) Nutt.
  
• (≡) Calocarpum mammosum Pierre
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (≡) Lucuma mammosa C. F. Gaertn.
  (previously associated with 9 accessions)
• (=) Manilkara achras (Mill.) Fosberg
  
• (=) Manilkara zapotilla (Jacq.) Gilly
  
• (≡) Pouteria mammosa Cronquist
  
• (=) Sapota zapotilla (Jacq.) Coville
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)

Check other databases for Manilkara zapota (L.) P. Royen:

• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• 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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