Taxon: Casimiroa edulis La Llave & Lex.

Common names:

• casimiroa   (Source: Pl Res SEAs ) – English
  
• Mexican-apple   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• white sapote   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• pomme mexicaine   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• sapote blanche   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Cochilsapote   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• weiße Sapote   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• sapoti   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• matasano   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• zapote blanco   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• vit sapote   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Hortus 3)
  
• Human food: fruit   (fide Pl Res SEAs 2:113. 1991; Cornucopia)
  
• 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
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - San Luis Potosi
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Federal District, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Oaxaca, Queretaro, Veracruz
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala

• 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).
• Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya. [cult.].
• 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).
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. [lists as C. e. Llave].
• Magness, J. R. et al. 1971. Food and feed crops of the United States. IR Bull. 1.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Martínez, M. 1951. Las casimiroas de México y Centroamérica. Anales Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. México 22:46–55.
• 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. & G. Espig. 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• St. John, H. 1973. List and summary of the flowering plants in the Hawaiian islands. [cult.].
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Standley, P. C. 1920. Trees and shrubs of Mexico. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 23:1-1721.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. [cult.].
• Verheij, E. W. M. & R. E. Coronel, eds. 1991. Edible fruits and nuts. P. 2:113 in: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Casimiroa edulis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Casimiroa edulis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Casimiroa edulis.

Check other web resources for Casimiroa edulis La Llave & Lex.:

• 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:

• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds: 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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