Pouteria campechiana — Details

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Distribution

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Lucuma heyderi Standl.:
Belize (Mesoamerica)
Honduras (Mesoamerica)

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Pouteria mante Lundell:
Mexico (Mesoamerica)

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Lucuma laeteviridis Pittier:
Guatemala (Mesoamerica)
Mexico (Mesoamerica)

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Lucuma nervosa A. DC.:
United States (North America)

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Lucuma glabrifolia Pittier:
Panama (Mesoamerica)

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Pouteria campechiana (Kunth) Baehni:
Belize (Mesoamerica)
Costa Rica (Mesoamerica)
El Salvador (Mesoamerica)
Guatemala (Mesoamerica)
Honduras (Mesoamerica)
Mexico (Mesoamerica)
United States (North America)
Panama (Mesoamerica)
Brazil (South America)
Caribbean (Caribbean)
Nicaragua (Mesoamerica)

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Lucuma salicifolia Kunth:
Mexico (Mesoamerica)

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Lucuma palmeri Fernald:
Mexico (Mesoamerica)

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Lucuma campechiana Kunth:
Mexico (Mesoamerica)

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National Distribution

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United States

Origin: Exotic

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

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Global Range: Jalisco and Veracruz, Mexico through Central America to Panama. Cultivated and naturalized in Florida, Cuba, and elsewhere.this species probably originated in Central America, tropical forest of Mexico.

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Physical Description

Type Information

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Isotype for Lucuma glabrifolia Pittier
Catalog Number: US 1083025
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): H. Pittier
Year Collected: 1914
Locality: Pinogana., Dari?n, Panama, Central America
  • Isotype: Pittier, H. F. 1922. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 20: 481.
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Possible holotype for Lucuma glabrifolia Pittier
Catalog Number: US 1083093
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Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): H. Pittier
Year Collected: 1914
Locality: Pinogana., Dari?n, Panama, Central America
  • Possible holotype: Pittier, H. F. 1922. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 20: 481.
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Isotype for Lucuma palmeri Fernald
Catalog Number: US 259099
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): E. Palmer
Year Collected: 1895
Locality: Acapulco., Guerrero, Mexico, North America
  • Isotype: Fernald, M. L. 1897. Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts. 33: 87.
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Holotype for Lucuma laeteviridis Pittier
Catalog Number: US 1012336
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Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): H. Pittier
Year Collected: 1919
Locality: Las Playitas., Izabal, Guatemala, Central America
  • Holotype: Pittier, H. F. 1922. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 20: 482.
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Isotype for Sideroxylon campestre Brandegee
Catalog Number: US 1013986
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Card file verified by examination of original publication
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): C. A. Purpus
Year Collected: 1920
Locality: Zacuapan., Veracruz, Mexico, North America
  • Isotype: Brandegee, T. S. 1920. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 7: 329.
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Holotype for Lucuma heyderi Standl.
Catalog Number: US 1315539
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): H. Heyder
Year Collected: 1927
Locality: Belize, Central America
  • Holotype: Standley, P. C. 1927. Trop. Woods. 11: 22.
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Ecology

Habitat

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Comments: Tropical rain forest, seasonal semideciduous forest, oak forest, pine forest, seasonal semi-evergreen forest dominated by Manilkara Zapota and Brosimum alicastrum, sea cliffs and dunes.

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Population Biology

Number of Occurrences

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Note: For many non-migratory species, occurrences are roughly equivalent to populations.

Estimated Number of Occurrences: 81 to >300

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Molecular Biology and Genetics

Molecular Biology

Statistics of barcoding coverage: Pouteria campechiana

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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 3
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Conservation

Conservation Status

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United States

Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable

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NatureServe Conservation Status

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Rounded Global Status Rank: GNR - Not Yet Ranked

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Relevance to Humans and Ecosystems

Benefits

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Comments: The fruit is edible but not particularly palatable. The juice makes a type of chicle. The timber is of good quality for strong construction and the more deeply colored kinds are highly resistant to decay (Mills 1957).

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Pouteria campechiana

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Two sliced Pouteria campechiana fruits.

The canistel (Pouteria campechiana) is an evergreen tree native to southern Mexico and Central America.[1] It is cultivated in other countries, such as Brazil, Taiwan, and Vietnam for its fruit.

The canistel grows up to 10 meters (33 ft) high, and produces orange-yellow fruit, also called yellow sapote, up to 7 centimeters (2.8 in) long, which are edible raw. Canistel flesh is sweet, with a texture often compared to that of a cooked egg yolk, hence its colloquial name of "eggfruit." It is closely related to the Mamey sapote and abiu.

Etymology

Its binomial name is derived from the Mexican town of Campeche, where it is native. It is sometimes (wrongly) referred to as Lucuma campechiana. In the Philippines it is called chesa. In Sri Lanka this fruit is known as Laulu, Lavulu or Lawalu.[2] In Thailand it is known by different traditional popular names such as Lamut Khamen (ละมุดเขมร="Khmer Sapodilla") or Tho Khamen (ท้อเขมร="Khmer Peach"), attributing a hypothetic Cambodian origin to this fruit.[3] Currently those names are officially discouraged and the name Mon Khai (ม่อนไข่), Khai meaning "egg", is favored.[4]

The plant's name in the Vietnamese language is cây trứng gà (“chicken egg” plant) because of the fruit's appearance. It also has the Vietnamese name lekima. This is very unusual because Vietnamese is a tonal, isolating language whose morphemes all consist of a single syllable. It appears that this name derives from the word lucuma.

References

  1. ^ "Pouteria campechiana". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?102607. Retrieved 2009-01-29.
  2. ^ D.K.N.G. Pushpakumara (2007). "Lavulu". Underutilized fruit trees in Sri Lanka. World Agroforestry Centre, South Asia Office, New Delhi, India. http://www.worldagroforestry.org/downloads/publications/PDFs/BC07321.PDF.
  3. ^ มีเมล็ดละมุดเขมรหรือเซียนท้อจำหน่าย
  4. ^ Aroi Lanna
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Names and Taxonomy

Taxonomy

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Comments: Recorded as Lucuma campechiana HBK by Mills, 1957 (B57MIL0100LA).

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