''Casimiroa'' is a

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of flowering plants in the family

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. It includes about 10 species native to

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and

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. 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 Sapote (from Nahuatl ''tzapotl'') is a term for a soft, edible fruit. The word is incorporated into the common names of several unrelated fruit-bearing plants native to southern Mexico, Central America and northern parts of South America. It is al ...

. Not all sapotes are members of this genus or even family, however; many sapotes are in the family

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, especially the genus ''

Pouteria ''Pouteria'' is a genus of flowering trees in the gutta-percha family, Sapotaceae. The genus is widespread throughout the tropical regions of the world. It includes the canistel ('' P. campechiana''), the mamey sapote ('' P. sapota''), and the l ...

'', and the

black sapote ''Diospyros nigra'', the black sapote, is a species of persimmon. Common names include chocolate pudding fruit, black soapapple and (in Spanish) ''zapote prieto''. The tropical fruit tree is native to Mexico, Central America, and Colombia. The c ...

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

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s, as an ornamental, as an herbal remedy, and occasionally as

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. ''C. sapota'', which also produces edible fruit, is grown in Mexico, and ''C. tetrameria'' is also known in cultivation.

Species

''Casimiroa'' subordinate taxa.
Tropicos.

References

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