Mamey vs. Sapote — What's the Difference?

A tree (Mammea americana) of the West Indies and northern South America having glossy leaves, white fragrant flowers, and large edible brown fruit.

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 Mexico, Central America and northern parts of South America.

The fruit of this tree, having firm juicy yellow or orange flesh and toxic seeds. Also called mammee apple.

A Mexican and Central American tree (Pouteria sapota) having edible oval fruit with rough brown skin and sweet reddish flesh.

The evergreen tree Mammea americana, or its edible fruit

The fruit of this tree. Also called mamey sapote, marmalade plum.

The flowering plant Magnolia guatemalensis

Any of several other trees of the American tropics that bear sweet edible fruit, especially Casimiroa edulis, having greenish-yellow fruit with whitish flesh, and Diospyros digyna, a persimmon having greenish fruit with dark brown flesh.

The tree Pouteria sapota, or its fruit.

The fruit of any of these trees.

Tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind

The soft, edible fruit of various South American trees, including the sapodilla.

Globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh

Sapotaceae species:

Ebenaceae species:

Rutaceae species:

Tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum

Brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet