Diospyros digyna Jacq.
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Origin : Mesoamerica
cultivated
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Description
Fruit 5-15 cm in diameter. Pulp pale brown, becoming chocolate brown when exposed to air.
Popular names
- English:
- black persimmon, black sapote (Mansfeld)
- black apple, black persimmon, black sapote, chocolate pudding fruit (NWFD)
- black persimmon (Hawaii) (Popenoe, 1920)
- black persimmon, black sapote (PROSEA)
- French:
- cacapoule, sapote, sapote noire, sapotier (NWFD)
- Spanish
- zapote negro, guayabota (Mexico), zapote prieto (Mexico) (Mansfeld)
- ebeno agrio, sapote negro (NWFD)
- zapote negro (León, 1987; Hoyos, 1989; Torres in Rojas Rabiela, 1985)
- zapote negro, zapote prieto (usual term in Mexico) (Popenoe, 1920)
- zapote negro, zapote prieto, que son traducciones castellanas del náhuatl tliltzpotl (Patiño, 1963)
- guayabote, guayabota (Porto Rico) (Popenoe, 1920)
- tlilzapote, tilzapote. 'Del azteca tliltic, cosa negra; tzapotl, zapote. m. Aztequismo usado [en México], aunque raramente, para designar al zapote prieto, zapote negro o taúche (Diospyros ebenaster) y a veces también el tempisque (Bumelia laetevirens)'. (Santamaría, 1974)
- taúche. 'Del maya tauch. Diospyros ebenaster. m. Nombre vulgar que en la región mayeana del sureste (Tabasco, Campeche y Yucatán), se da a planta diospirácea más generalmente conocida por zapote prieto. El nombre maya se descompone así: tá, excremento animal, mierda, y uch, aplastado, despachurrado: mierda aplastada o plasta de mierda.' (Santamaría, 1974)
- Nahuatl
- tliltzapotl (Mexico) (Mansfeld)
- tliltzapotl ('if Manuel Urbina is correct') (Popenoe, 1920)
- tlilxapotl (Hernández, (XVIth century) 1959, II:91, lib. 2, cap. CXXXV, to be checked; quoted by Rojas Rabiela, 1985)
- totolcuitzapotl (Molina, 1970: 150, quoted by Rojas Rabiela, 1985)
- Maya
- tauch, tauchya. Diospyros ebenaster (Roys, 1931)
- Philippines
- zapoté (Mansfeld)
- Tagalog: zapote negro (PROSEA)
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Classification
Diospyros digyna Jacq. (1798)
synonyms:
- Diospyros ebenaster Hiern non Retz. (1873)
- Diospyros nigra (J.F. Gmelin) Perrottet (1825)
- Diospyros obtusifolia Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. (1805)
Cultivars
History
Mostly cultivated in its area of origin (Mexico and Guatemala). Introduced by Spaniards through the 'Manila line' to the Philippines, whence it spread to the Moluccas and Sulawesi. Also introduced to Florida and the Caribbean.
Uses
- Fruit, eaten ripe (raw, cooked, in beverages).
- Timber, minor.
- Fish poison (unripe fruit).
- Medicine (bark and leaves).
References
- Fouqué, A., 1972. Espèces fruitières d'Amérique tropicale. Institut français de recherches fruitières outre-mer (IFAC).
- Le Bellec, F & V. Renard, 1997. Le grand livre des fruits tropicaux. Orphie.
- Morton, J. 1987. Black Sapote. pp. 416–418. In: Julia F. Morton, Fruits of warm climates, Miami.
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