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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = Jocote
| image = Jocote.jpg
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Sapindales]]
| familia = [[Anacardiaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Spondias]]''
| species = '''''S. purpurea
| binomial = ''Spondias purpurea''
| binomial_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|(L.)]]
}}
'''Jocote''' (''Spondias purpurea'') is a species of [[flowering plant]] in the family [[Anacardiaceae]], native to tropical regions of the [[Americas]]. Other common names include '''Red Mombin''', '''Purple Mombin''', '''Ciruela''', or '''Hog Plum'''.
It is a small to medium-sized [[tree]] up to 25 m tall. The [[leaf|leaves]] are [[deciduous]] in the short [[dry season]], but only fall shortly before the new leaves develop; they are pinnate, with 7-23 leaflets, each leaflet 3-5 cm long and 1.5-2 cm broad. The [[flower]]s are small, reddish-purple, produced in large [[panicle]]s. The [[fruit]] is an edible oval [[drupe]], 3-5 cm long and 2-3.5 cm broad, ripening red (occasionally yellow) and containing a single large [[seed]].
It is now widely cultivated in tropical regions throughout the world for its edible fruit (it is eaten with salt before they ripen), and is also [[naturalisation (biology)|naturalised]] in some areas, including the [[Philippines]] and [[Nigeria]]. Numerous [[cultivar]]s have been selected for fruit quality. It is also abundant in [[Central America]].
==See also==
*[[List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil]]
==References==
*Miller, A and Schall, B. 2005. Domestication of a Mesoamerican cultivated fruit tree, ''Spondias purpurea''. ''PNAS'' 102:12801–12806
*[http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/purple_mombin.html Purple Mombin]
[[Category:Sapindales]]
[[Category:Trees of Brazil]]
[[Category:Trees of Central America]]
[[Category:Fruit]]
{{Sapindales-stub}}
| color = lightgreen
| name = Jocote
| image = Jocote.jpg
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Sapindales]]
| familia = [[Anacardiaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Spondias]]''
| species = '''''S. purpurea
| binomial = ''Spondias purpurea''
| binomial_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|(L.)]]
}}
'''Jocote''' (''Spondias purpurea'') is a species of [[flowering plant]] in the family [[Anacardiaceae]], native to tropical regions of the [[Americas]]. Other common names include '''Red Mombin''', '''Purple Mombin''', '''Ciruela''', or '''Hog Plum'''.
It is a small to medium-sized [[tree]] up to 25 m tall. The [[leaf|leaves]] are [[deciduous]] in the short [[dry season]], but only fall shortly before the new leaves develop; they are pinnate, with 7-23 leaflets, each leaflet 3-5 cm long and 1.5-2 cm broad. The [[flower]]s are small, reddish-purple, produced in large [[panicle]]s. The [[fruit]] is an edible oval [[drupe]], 3-5 cm long and 2-3.5 cm broad, ripening red (occasionally yellow) and containing a single large [[seed]].
It is now widely cultivated in tropical regions throughout the world for its edible fruit (it is eaten with salt before they ripen), and is also [[naturalisation (biology)|naturalised]] in some areas, including the [[Philippines]] and [[Nigeria]]. Numerous [[cultivar]]s have been selected for fruit quality. It is also abundant in [[Central America]].
==See also==
*[[List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil]]
==References==
*Miller, A and Schall, B. 2005. Domestication of a Mesoamerican cultivated fruit tree, ''Spondias purpurea''. ''PNAS'' 102:12801–12806
*[http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/purple_mombin.html Purple Mombin]
[[Category:Sapindales]]
[[Category:Trees of Brazil]]
[[Category:Trees of Central America]]
[[Category:Fruit]]
{{Sapindales-stub}}