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'''Sapote''' or '''tzapotl''' is a [[Nahuatl language]] word for a soft, edible [[fruit]]. The word is incorporated into the common names of several unrelated fruit-bearing plants native to [[Mexico]], [[Central America]] and northern parts of [[South America]].

* [[Black sapote]] (''Diospyros digyna''), family [[Ebenaceae]], a species of tree native to eastern [[Mexico]] and Central America south to Colombia.
* [[Green sapote]], family [[Sapotaceae]], a species from lowland southern Mexico that is closely related to mamey sapote.
* [[Mamey sapote]] (''Pouteria sapota''), family [[Sapotaceae]], a species of tree native to southern Mexico and northern South America.
* [[Sapodilla]] (''Manilkara zapota''), family Sapotaceae, a species of tree native to Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Belize, and possibly El Salvador.
* [[Quararibea cordata|South American sapote]] (''Quararibea cordata'' = ''Matisia cordata''), family [[Malvaceae]], a species of tree native to the [[Amazon Rainforest]]s of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
* [[White sapote]] (''Casimiroa edulis''), family [[Rutaceae]], a species of tree native to northern and central Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?9292 |title=Casimiroa edulis |work=[[Germplasm Resources Information Network]] |publisher=[[United States Department of Agriculture]] |accessdate=2009-03-26}}</ref>
* [[Yellow sapote]] (''Pouteria campechiana''), family Sapotaceae, a species of tree native to Mexico and Central America.


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File:Diospyros digyna 2.jpg|Black sapote
File:Mamey.jpg|Mamey sapote
File:Manilkara zapota.jpg|Sapodilla
File:Zapotes.jpg|South American sapote
File:Casimiroa edulis4.jpg|White sapote
File:Canistel-2.jpg|Yellow sapote
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==References==
*http://www.wikipedia.org