Sapotaceae
328 edible species
Tropical family with edible fruits like sapodilla and shea butter.
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