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Casimiroa
''Casimiroa'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae. It includes about 10 species native to Mexico and Central America. The genus is named for "an Otomi Indian, Casimiro Gómez, from the town of Cardonal in Hidalgo, Mexico, who fought and died in Mexico's war of independence." A general common name for plants of the genus is sapote. Not all sapotes are members of this genus or even family, however; many sapotes are in the family Sapotaceae, especially the genus ''Pouteria'', and the black sapote is part of the Ebenaceae. Some species are cultivated. ''C. edulis'' (white sapote) produces edible fruit. It is also used as a shade tree in coffee plantations, as an ornamental, as an herbal remedy, and occasionally as lumber Lumber is wood that has been processed into uniform and useful sizes (dimensional lumber), including beams and planks or boards. Lumber is mainly used for construction framing, as well as finishing (floors, wall panels, window ...
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Casimiroa Edulis
The white sapote, scientific name ''Casimiroa edulis'', also called casimiroa and Mexican apple, and known as ''cochitzapotl'' in the Nahuatl language (meaning "sleep-sapote") is a species of tropical fruiting tree in the family Rutaceae, native to eastern Mexico and Central America south to Costa Rica. The genus is named for "an Otomi Indian, Casimiro Gómez, from the town of Cardonal in Hidalgo, Mexico, who fought and died in Mexican War of Independence, Mexico's war of independence." Description Mature ''C. edulis'' trees range from tall and are evergreen. The leaf, leaves are alternate, palmately compound with three to five leaflets, the leaflets 6–13 cm long and 2.5–5 cm broad with an entire margin, and the leaf petiole 10–15 cm long. The fruit is an ovoid drupe, 5–10 cm in diameter, with a thin, inedible skin turning from green to yellow when ripe, and an edible pulp, which can range in flavor from bland to banana-like to peach to pear to van ...
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Sapote
Sapote (; from ) is a term for a soft, edible fruit. 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. Species From Sapotaceae Some, but not all sapotes, come from the family Sapotaceae: * Sapodilla, 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'') is from southern Mexico to northern South America. * Green sapote ('' Pouteria viridis'') is native to lowland southern Mexico. File:Vietnamese Sapote.JPG, '' Manilkara zapota'', , a kind of Vietnamese sapote File:Mamey.jpg, '' Pouteria sapota'', mamey sapote File:Manilkara zapota.jpg, '' Manilkara zapota'', sapodilla File:Canistel-2.jpg, ''Pouteria campechiana'', yellow s ...
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