Sapote

Sapote
	Black sapote
Type	Fruit
Region or state	Mexico, Central America and northern parts of South America

Sapote (/səˈpoʊtiː, -eɪ, -ə/;^[1]^[2]^[3] from Nahuatl: tzapotl^[4]) is a term for a soft, edible fruit.^[1] The word is incorporated into the common names of several unrelated fruit-bearing plants native to Mexico, Central America and northern parts of South America.^[1]^[5] It is also known in Caribbean English as soapapple.^{[citation needed]}

Casimiroa edulis, white sapote
Quararibea cordata, South American sapote
Manilkara zapota, Hồng xiêm, a kind of Vietnamese sapote^{[citation needed]}
Pouteria sapota, mamey sapote
Manilkara zapota, sapodilla
Pouteria campechiana, yellow sapote

Sapotaceae

Some but not all sapotes come from the family Sapotaceae:

Sapodilla,^[3]^[4] also called naseberry (Manilkara zapota) is native to Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Belize, and possibly El Salvador. The Sapotaceae were named after a synonym of this species.
Yellow sapote (Pouteria campechiana) is native to Mexico and Central America.
Mamey sapote (Pouteria sapota)^[1]^[2] is from southern Mexico to northern South America.
Green sapote (Pouteria viridis) is native to lowland southern Mexico.

Black sapote (Diospyros nigra: Ebenaceae),^[1] from eastern Mexico south to Colombia, is probably the original Aztec tzapotl.
White sapote (Casimiroa edulis: Rutaceae)^[1] is native to northern and central Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala.^[6]
South American sapote (Quararibea cordata: Malvaceae)^[5] is native to the Amazon rainforests of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
Sun sapote (Licania platypus: Chrysobalanaceae) is native to southern Mexico south to Colombia.