Taxon: Pouteria sapota (Jacq.) H. E. Moore & Stearn

Common names:

• mammee sapote   (Source: F Neotrop 52:495.) – English
  
• marmalade-plum   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• marmalade-tree   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• große Sapote   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• mamey   (Source: F Neotrop 52:495.) – Spanish
  
• mamey colorado   (Source: F Neotrop 52:495.) – Spanish
  
• sapote   (Source: F Neotrop 52:495.) – Spanish
  
• zapote   (Source: F Neotrop 52:495.) – Spanish
  
• zapote mamey   (Source: F Neotrop 52:495.) – Spanish
  
• mameysapote   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit   (fide F Neotrop 52:495. 1990)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Mexico [s.]
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Belize; El Salvador - San Vicente; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua [e.]

• 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).
• 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.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• 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. 52:493–496.
• Pennington, T. D. 1991. The genera of the Sapotaceae.
• Rehm, S. & G. Espig. 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Reitz, R., ed. 1965–. Flora ilustrada catarinense. [= Calocarpum sapota (Jacq.) Merr.].
• 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). 2:259.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

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Synonyms:

• (=) Achras lucuma Blanco
  
• (=) Achras mammosa auct.
  
• (=) Calocarpum mammosum auct.
  
• (≡) Calocarpum sapota (Jacq.) Merr.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Lucuma mammosa auct.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Pouteria mammosa auct.
  
• (≡) Sideroxylon sapota Jacq. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Pouteria sapota (Jacq.) H. E. Moore & Stearn:

• 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.
• Fruit with epicarp removed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• 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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