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
  
• svart sapote   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

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

• also cultivated

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).
• Correa, J. E. & H. Y. Bernal. 1992. Especies vegetales promisorias de los paises del Convenio Andres Bello. 7:114–161.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Gómez-Pompa, A. & V. Sosa, eds. 1978–. Flora de Veracruz.
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• 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.
• 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.
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• 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). 2:152–154.
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of 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.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Diospyros digyna.

Check other web resources 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.

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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