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
  
• chico sapote   (Source: Cornucopia ) – Spanish
  
• níspero   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• zapote   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• zapotillo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• sapotillplommon   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

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

More:

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

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Mexico
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Guatemala; Nicaragua

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: El Salvador [native status uncertain]

• widely cultivated in tropics

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.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. 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.
• Hackett, C. & J. Carolane. 1982. Edible Horticultural Crops.
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption.
• Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• 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. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 52:64.
• Pennington, T. D. 1991. The genera of the Sapotaceae.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Reichel, S. 1998. pers. comm. [re. German common names].
• Reitz, R., ed. 1965–. Flora ilustrada catarinense. [= Achras zapota L.].
• Smith, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource).
• Verheij, E. W. M. & R. E. Coronel, eds. 1991. Edible fruits and nuts. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 2:220.
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama.
• Yaacob, O. & S. Subhadrabandhu. 1995. The production of economic fruits in South-East Asia.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Manilkara zapota.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Manilkara zapota.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Manilkara zapota.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Achradelpha mammosa O. F. Cook
  (previously associated with 16 accessions)
• (≡) Achras mammosa L.
  
• (≡) Achras zapota L. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 26 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 web resources 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.

Images:

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

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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