Taxon: Diospyros digyna Jacq.

Common names:

• black persimmon   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 2:152.) – English
  
• black sapote   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• barbaquois   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Ebenholzbaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• schwarze Sapote   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• sapote negro   (Source: F Panama ) – Spanish
  
• zapote negro   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit   (fide F Panama; Pl Res SEAs 2:152-154. 1991)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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View phytochemical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Western South America: Colombia

• cultivated elsewhere

References:

• Correa, J. E. & H. Y. Bernal. 1992. Especies vegetales promisorias de los paises del Convenio Andres Bello. (Esp Veg Prom) 7:114–161.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Gómez-Pompa, A. & V. Sosa, eds. 1978–. Flora de Veracruz. (F Veracruz)
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database - on-line resource. (New World Fruits)
• 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)
• 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)
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala. (F Guat)
• Verheij, E. W. M. & R. E. Coronel, eds. 1991. Edible fruits and nuts. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 2:152–154.
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama. (F Panama)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Diospyros digyna.

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

Check other databases for Diospyros digyna Jacq.:

• 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.

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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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