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The black sapotier or black wood (Diospyros digyna Jacq., 1803) is a species of tropical trees of the Ebenaceae family, native to Mexico and Central America.
Scientific name: Diospyros digyna Jacq. 1803
Another vernacular name: poochen hen. Loquat tree. Sapote. Black sapon tree
Family: ebenaceae
Origin: Native to Mexico and Central America.
Ethymology: The local nickname "poochen hen" is due to the color of the fruit resembling the excrement of this gallinaceae.
Description:
The sapotier is a tree This tree with high trunk and spreading crown spreads its green foliage staged up to 25 m high. Its brown twigs bear alternate leaves, coriaceous, elliptical and pointed. The foliage is light green.
The greenish-yellow flowers are fragrant. On the same tree are male flowers, female flowers and hermaphrodite flowers.
The fruit is an olive-green berry that turns brown at full maturity. At this point the pulp softens and turns dark brown while the consistency becomes floury and creamy. Its taste is chocolate.
Use (s):
The black saponier is cultivated for its fruits, called black sapotes, and for its latex used for the preparation of chewing gum.
When the fruit is green, are juice is caustic and irritating. It contains up to 12 flat and brown seeds. Once ripe the generous and sweet edible pulp repels by its brown-chocolate color. However, its creaminess allows the making of delicious desserts (creams, ice cream, pies, cakes), drinks and liqueurs. It is also eaten raw washed down with lemon.
Its seeds are used to intoxicate fish.
Its white wood, is of good quality but remains little known and therefore little used.
Biology: A species that likes high temperatures provided the atmosphere is humid. Sapote prefers fresh, slightly acidic, filtering soil rich in organic matter.
It is grown up to 600m altitude. Its multiplication is mainly by seeds. The plants begin production at the age of 6, before they are grafted