| Diospyros digyna Black Sapote |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ebenaceae |
| Genus: | Diospyros |
| Species: | D. digyna |
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| Diospyros digyna Jacq. |
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Diospyros ebenaster Retz. |
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Diospyros digyna, the Black Sapote, is a species of persimmon that is native to eastern Mexico and Central America south to Colombia. Other names include Chocolate Pudding Fruit, Chocolate Persimmon and (in Spanish) Zapote Prieto.
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Mature trees can grow to over 25 m (82 ft) in height and are evergreen. It is frost sensitive. The leaves are elliptic-oblong, tapered at both ends, dark green, glossy, and 10–30 cm (3.9–12 in) long. The trees are dioecious, with individual trees bearing only female or male flowers.[1]
Black Sapote fruit are tomato-like and measure 5–10 cm (2.0–3.9 in) in diameter, with an inedible skin that turns from olive to a deep yellow-green when ripe and an edible pulp that turns from white when unripe to a flavor, color and texture often likened to chocolate pudding when ripe. The texture can be related to that of a papaya.
It is unrelated to the mamey sapote (Sapotaceae), and the white sapote (Rutaceae). In south Florida it is also sometimes confused with the Coco Fruit, a toxic relative that can cause insanity. .
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Data related to Diospyros digyna at Wikispecies