Sapotaceae

Argan, Morocco iron-wood

Edible: Nuts - oil, Leaves, Fruit, Gum

Ntiore, Uku

Edible: Seeds - oil, Seeds

False shea butternut, African pearwood

Edible: Nuts, Seeds - oil, Fruit, Leaves

Northern Coondoo

Edible: Fruit

Big-leaf Planchonella, Big-leaf Coondoo, Pink boxwood

Edible: Fruit

Pink Boxwood

Edible: Fruit

Chittamwood

Edible: Fruit

Shittamwood

Edible: Fruit

Ironwood, Tough bully

Edible: Fruit

Bukubuk, Red silkwood tree

Edible: Fruit

Kau, Au

Edible: Fruit

Kona

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit, Sap

Redflower chromolucuma

Edible: Fruit

White star-apple, African star apple

Edible: Fruit, Seeds - oil

Amazonia star apple

Edible: Fruit

Lechecillo

Edible: Fruit

Wild starapple

Edible: Fruit

Rusty wild star apple

Edible: Fruit

Panama wild star apple

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Silky starapple

Edible: Fruit

Zuli krie, Brenes starapple

Edible: Fruit

Star apple, Caimito

Edible: Fruit, Seeds

Atakamara

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Aguai chico, Angledfruit starapple

Edible: Fruit

Brown-berry fluted milkwood

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Shining leaf starapple

Edible: Fruit

Thick fruit shining starapple

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Manaus starapple

Edible: Fruit

Mexican star-apple

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Satin-Leaf, Damson-plum

Edible: Fruit

Oval starapple

Edible: Fruit

Monkey Star apple

Edible: Fruit

Applebearing starapple

Edible: Fruit

Abiurana

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Revolute starapple

Edible: Fruit

Star apple

Edible: Fruit

Balata-balli

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Bladderlike starapple

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Superb starapple

Edible: Fruit

Usina, Venezuela starapple

Edible: Fruit

Fluted milkwood

Edible: Fruit

Kusudama

Edible: Fruit

Indian butter tree

Edible: Kernel, Fruit, Flowers, Nuts, Seeds - oil

Edible: Seeds - oil

Mountain loquat

Edible: Seeds - oil

Cong sua bac bo

Edible: Seeds - oil

Balata

Edible: Latex

Coquirana, Lanceolate ecclinusa

Edible: Fruit, Latex

Guaca, Guaquapari

Edible: Fruit

Glabrescent elaeoluma

Edible: Fruit

Schomburgk elaeoluma

Edible: Fruit

Nufu-nufu

Edible: Fruit

Milk plum, Stem-fruit

Edible: Fruit

Natal milk plum, Natal sweet plum, Forest stem-fruit

Edible: Fruit

Nnanfuro

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Gum - masticatory

Beach apricot tree

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Seeds - oil, Caution

Edible: Fruit

Mentua taban

Edible: Sap, Fruit ?

Edible: Fruit

Lamut

Edible: Fruit

Mowra buttertree, Honey tree

Edible: Fruit, Flowers, Leaves, Seeds - oil

Edible: Fruit, Flowers

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Zi jing mu

Edible: Seeds - oil

Trabaek barang

Edible: Fruit

Common balata, Bulletwood

Edible: Fruit, Seeds, Flowers, Latex

Chicle

Edible: Latex, Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Red milkwood, Silvery milkwood

Edible: Fruit

Bullet wood

Edible: Fruit, Latex

Edible: Fruit, Latex

Black balata

Edible: Fruit, Sap

Edible: Fruit

Jaimiqui, Wild-dilly

Edible: Fruit

Massaranduba, Black massaranduba, Macaranduba-pre-ta

Edible: Fruit, Latex

Edible: Fruit

Chicle de Segunda

Edible: Sap,Latex

Massaranduba, Macaranduba

Edible: Fruit, Latex

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Sapodilla, Nispero

Edible: Fruit, Leaves, Sap, Shoots

Edible: Fruit

Caimitillo, Croton like micropholis

Edible: Fruit

Caimitillo, Caimito

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Abiufi

Edible: Fruit

Obscure micropholis

Edible: Fruit

Beef apple, Bull apple

Edible: Fruit

Caimitillo negro

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit - masticatory, Bark - flavouring

Ausubo, Balata

Edible: Fruit

Mascarene mimusops

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit.

Spanish Cherry, Bakul

Edible: Fruit, Oil

Geza

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Seeds

Round-fruited red milkwood

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Mgama

Edible: Fruit

Brown pearwood, Plum boxwood, Milky plum

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Butter-lime

Edible: Fruit

Gutta-percha tree

Edible: Seeds

Edible: Fruit, Seeds, Seeds - oil

Edible: Latex - chewed, Gum

Edible: ?

Tai wan jiao mu

Edible: Fruit

Cairns Pencil Cedar, Red Silkwood, Daintree Maple

Edible: Fruit

Red gutta-percha

Edible: Seeds - oil, Fruit

Nyatoh jongkang tree

Edible: Seeds, Oil, Fruit

Palak-palak

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Gum

Nato

Edible: Fruit, Gum

Edible: Fruit

White gutta, Katapong gutta-percha

Edible: Sap

Malakmalak

Edible: Fruit, Seeds - oil

Edible: Flowers, Fruit

Nyatoh terung tree

Edible: Fruit, Seeds - oil

Edible: Seeds - oil

Mbau

Edible: Gum

Edible: Seeds - oil

Edible: Fruit

Balam suntei tree, Getah sundek

Edible: Fruit

Balam jiput tree

Edible: Fruit

Tao lan, Peach canarium

Edible: Fruit

Nutwood

Edible: Fruit

Black apple

Edible: Fruit

Thin Leafed Coondoo

Edible: Fruit

Tawapou

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Black Plum, Shiny-leaved Coondoo

Edible: Fruit

Hickory Boxwood, Candlewood

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Blush Coondoo

Kenerewen

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Northern Yellow Boxwood, Yellow Teak

Edible: Fruit

Northern Yellow Boxwood, Black Ash, Yellow Teak

Edible: Fruit, Kernel, Nuts

Big Green Plum, Yellow Boxwood, Engraver’s Wood, Great green plum

Edible: Fruit

Sosi

Edible: Seeds for oil, Fruit

Edible: Fruit, Seeds - oil

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Abnormal pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Colombia pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Black Apple, Wild Plum, Yellow Buttonwood

Edible: Fruit

Yaas

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Guaquapari

Edible: Fruit

Bilocular pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Bracteate pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Chiche

Edible: Fruit

Bullate pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Oilyfruit pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Abiu, Caimito

Edible: Fruit, Kernel, Nuts

Egg fruit tree, Canistel

Edible: Fruit, Kernel, Nuts

Ecuador pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Cayenne pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Abiurana seca

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Caimitillo

Edible: Fruit

Heartshaped pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Haimara eye

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Robust cuspidate pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Jocuma

Edible: Fruit

Lucumito, Durland pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Alofachi-boiti, Excellent pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Abiurana, Graceful pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Abiurana, Suriname pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Mamey pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Agauai grande, Gardner pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Aguai

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Abio, Glomerate pouteria

Edible: Seeds, Fruit, Nuts

Edible: Fruit

Abiurana de baixo

Edible: Fruit

Gongrip pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Largeflower pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Guianas pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Hispid pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Abiu, Guajara, Zolive

Edible: Fruit

Jurua pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Krukoff pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Smooth pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit ?

Lucma, Longleaf pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Lucmo, Lucuma, Eggfruit

Edible: Fruit

Lucumaleaf pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Nyatoh maclayana tree

Edible: Fruit

Bigfruit pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Lucma, Bigleaf pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Maguire pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Moraballi, Black pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Bully tree, Choky apple

Edible: Altschul, S.V.R., 1973, Drugs and Foods from Little-known Plants. Notes in Harvard University Herbaria. Harvard Univ. Press. Massachusetts. no. 3238 Fouqué, A., 1972, Espèces fruitières d'Amérique tropicale. Institut français de recherches fruitierès outre-mer (ifac) Galeano, G., 2000, Forest Use at the Pacific Coast of Choco, Colombia: A Quantitative Approach. Economic Botany, Vol. 54, No. 3, pp. 358-376 (Could be pig food!) Grandtner, M. M., 2008, World Dictionary of Trees. Wood and Forest Science Department. Laval University, Quebec, Qc Canada. (Internet database http://www.wdt.qc.ca) Grandtner, M. M. & Chevrette, J., 2013, Dictionary of Trees, Volume 2: South America: Nomenclature, Taxonomy and Ecology. Academic Press p 527 Kermath, B. M., et al, 2014, Food Plants in the Americas: A survey of the domesticated, cultivated and wild plants used for Human food in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. On line draft. p 693 Lopez-Diago, D. & Garcia, N., 2021, Wild edible fruits of Colombia. Biota ColomBiana 22 (2) p 51 Penafield Anchundia, D. D., 2017, Traditional food consumption and its nutritional contribution in Guasaganda, Central Ecuador. PhD Ghent University p 72 Pennington, T.D., 1990, Sapotaceae in Flora Neotropica Monograph 52. New York Botanical Gardens. p 391 Pilz, G. E., 1981, Sapotaceae of Panama. Annals of Missouri Botanical Garden. Vol. 68. No. 1 p 177 (As Pouteria carabobensis) Recueil Trav. Bot. Neerl. 33:164. 1936 Roa, J. A. G. & Boada, D. S. G., 2018, Fundación para el Fortalecimiento de la Fruticultura y Plantas Alimenticias no Convencionales en Colombia. Smith, N., et al, 2007, Amazon River Fruits. Flavors for Conservation. Missouri Botanical Gardens Press. p 234 Torre, de la, L., et al, 2008, Enciclopedia de las Plantas Útiles del Ecuador. Herbario QCA. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. p 573 Vasquez, R. and Gentry, A. H., 1989, Use and Misuse of Forest-harvested Fruits in the Iquitos Area. Conservation Biology 3(4): 350f www.colecionandofrutas.org

Caramuri pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Thickcalyx pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Pariri

Edible: Fruit

Fine-leaved kamahora

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Plicate pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Micuna pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Macaranduba, Abiu

Edible: Fruit

Typical reticulate pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Sagot pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Sapote, Mamey sapote

Edible: Fruit, Kernel, Seeds, Nuts

Edible: Fruit ?

Black plum

Edible: Fruit

Trompillo

Edible: Fruit

Showy pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Bluish pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Surumu pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit ?

Curiola, Twisted pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Broad-leaved asipokoballi

Edible: Fruit

Tuberculate twisted pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Tripleleaf pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Ucuqui

Edible: Fruit

Veined pouteria

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Green sapote

Edible: Fruit, Kernel, Nuts, Seeds

Bush Coondoo, Northern Coondoo

Edible: Fruit

Beard pradosia

Edible: Fruit

Armadillo fruit, Fruta-de-tatu

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Buranhem, Bacupari, Bacuri

Edible: Fruit

Mountain pradosia

Edible: Fruit

Mutis pradosia

Edible: Fruit

Balata pomier, Kimboto

Edible: Fruit

Schomburgk pradosia

Edible: Latex, Fruit

Suriname pradosia

Edible: Fruit

Cambuca, Brazil sarcaulus

Edible: Fruit

Quinilla

Edible: Fruit

Capulin

Edible: Fruit

Cocuyo, Pigeon berry

Edible: Fruit

Capiri, Capire

Edible: Fruit

Mastic, Sapotilla, Tempisque

Edible: Fruit, Leaves

Edible: Fruit

Brownward plum, Camiche, Coma, Guamachito

Edible: Fruit

Leathery jungleplum

Mastic, Mastic jungleplum

Edible: Fruit

Tortugo amarillo, False mastic

Edible: Fruit

Milkweed, White milkwood

Edible: Fruit, Flowers

Edible: Fruit

Woolly buckthorn

Edible: Fruit, Gum, Sap

Chittamwood

Edible: Fruit, Caution

Shittamwood, Buskthorn Bumelia, Buckthorn bully

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Obtuseleaf jungleplum

Edible: Fruit

Avalo, Cagalera, Caimito

Edible: Fruit

Bebelama

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Bebelama

Edible: Fruit

Babelama, Western bumelia

Edible: Fruit

Acoma piquant, Limoncillo

Edible: Fruit

Bebelama, Chuwa, Cupilla

Edible: Fruit

Western Buckthorn, Smooth buckthorn

Edible: Fruit

Chicle faisan, Faisan

Edible: Latex

Ironwood, Tough bumelia, Narrowleaf bumelia, Tough buckthorn, Silver buckthorn

Edible: Fruit

Tepic jungleplum

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit Pulp

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Stem-fruit miraculous berry

Edible: Fruit, Seeds

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit ?

Miracle Berry

Edible: Fruit

Sweet berry, Miracle fruit

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Miraculous fruit

Edible: Fruit, Seed

Miraculous fruit

Edible: Fruit

Douka

Edible: Oil, Seed

African mahogany, Cherry mahogany, Dumori butter

Edible: Seeds, Seeds - oil, Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Saffron Boxwood, Yellow Plum, Poison Plum, Milky Plum

Edible: Fruit, Seeds

Karite-nut, Shea, Shea-buttertree

Edible: Fruit, Flowers, Nuts, Seeds, Seeds - oil, Vegetable

Shea butter tree

Edible: Nuts, Seeds, Vegetable

Tugela milkwood

Edible: Fruit skin

Natal bush milkwood

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Edible: Fruit

Fern tree

Edible: Fruit

Laumai, Yunnan prickly canarium

Edible: Fruit

Betis

Edible: Medicine