Taxon: Lucuma campechiana Kunth

Summary

Genus:

Lucuma

Family:

Sapotaceae

Subfamily:

Chrysophylloideae

Nomen number:

403411

Place of publication:

F. W. H. A. von Humboldt et al., Nov. gen. sp. 3:188[folio]; 3:240[quarto]. 1819 "campechianum"

Protologue link:

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58746475

Verified:

11/17/1995 ARS Systematic Botanists.

Accessions:

36 (25 active, 12 available) in National Plant Germplasm System. (Map it)

Other conspecific taxa

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Pouteria campechiana (Kunth) Baehni

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Lucuma nervosa A. DC.
Lucuma rivicoa C. F. Gaertn. var. angustifolia Miq.
Lucuma salicifolia Kunth
Richardella nervosa (A. DC.) Pierre
Richardella salicifolia (Kunth) Pierre

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Conservation Status

Reference(s)

Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource) Note: as Pouteria campechiana
Awang-Kanak, F. & M. F. Abu Bakar . 2018. Canistel - Pouteria campechiana (Kunth) Baehni. In: Rodrigues, S. et al., Exotic fruits. Reference guide. 107-111. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-803138-4.00015-0. https://doi.org/10.1016/C2014-0-02888-2
Govaerts, R. & D. G. Frodin. 2001. World checklist and bibliography of Sapotaceae
Granados-Vega, K. M. et al. . 2023. Harvest season and morphological variation of Canistel (Pouteria campechiana) fruit and leaves collected in different zones of Mexico. Horticulturae. OAJ 9:1214. DOI: 10.3390/horticulturae9111214. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
Pennington, T. D. 1990. Sapotaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 52:380. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
Pérez-Barcena, J. F. et al. 2021. Partial characterization of the physical, chemical, and morphological properties of the seed of Pouteria campechiana (Sapotaceae). Fruits 76:201-210. DOI: 10.17660/th2021/76.4.5.
Ulian, T. et al. . 2021. Neglected and underutilized species of Mexico: status and priorities for their conservation and sustainable use. In: Padulosi, S. et al., Orphan crops for sustainable food and nutrition security. Promoting neglected and underutilized species 118-127. DOI: 10.4324/9781003044802-10.
Verheij, E. W. M. & R. E. Coronel, eds. 1991. Edible fruits and nuts. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 2:258. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
Villaseñor, J. L. 2016. Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Rev. Mex. Biodivers. 87:885. DOI: 10.1016/j.mb.2016.06.017. Note: as Pouteria campechiana

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	canistel	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English	eggfruit-tree	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English	yellow sapote	1	Verheij, E. W. M. & R. E. Coronel, eds. 1991. Edible fruits and nuts. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 2:258. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
Spanish (Mexico)	zapote amarillo	2	Pennington, T. D. 1990. Sapotaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 52:380. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
Swedish	canistelsapote	2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource) Note: as Pouteria campechiana

Distribution

order_code	Status	Continent	Subcontinent	Country	State	Reference
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	San Luis Potosí	Villaseñor, J. L. 2016. Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Rev. Mex. Biodivers. 87:885. DOI: 10.1016/j.mb.2016.06.017. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	Sinaloa	Villaseñor, J. L. 2016. Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Rev. Mex. Biodivers. 87:885. DOI: 10.1016/j.mb.2016.06.017. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Campeche	Villaseñor, J. L. 2016. Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Rev. Mex. Biodivers. 87:885. DOI: 10.1016/j.mb.2016.06.017. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Chiapas	Villaseñor, J. L. 2016. Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Rev. Mex. Biodivers. 87:885. DOI: 10.1016/j.mb.2016.06.017. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Colima	Villaseñor, J. L. 2016. Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Rev. Mex. Biodivers. 87:885. DOI: 10.1016/j.mb.2016.06.017. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Guerrero	Villaseñor, J. L. 2016. Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Rev. Mex. Biodivers. 87:885. DOI: 10.1016/j.mb.2016.06.017. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Hidalgo	Villaseñor, J. L. 2016. Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Rev. Mex. Biodivers. 87:885. DOI: 10.1016/j.mb.2016.06.017. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Jalisco	Villaseñor, J. L. 2016. Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Rev. Mex. Biodivers. 87:885. DOI: 10.1016/j.mb.2016.06.017. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	México	Villaseñor, J. L. 2016. Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Rev. Mex. Biodivers. 87:885. DOI: 10.1016/j.mb.2016.06.017. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Michoacán de Ocampo	Villaseñor, J. L. 2016. Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Rev. Mex. Biodivers. 87:885. DOI: 10.1016/j.mb.2016.06.017. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Morelos	Villaseñor, J. L. 2016. Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Rev. Mex. Biodivers. 87:885. DOI: 10.1016/j.mb.2016.06.017. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Nayarit	Villaseñor, J. L. 2016. Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Rev. Mex. Biodivers. 87:885. DOI: 10.1016/j.mb.2016.06.017. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Oaxaca	Villaseñor, J. L. 2016. Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Rev. Mex. Biodivers. 87:885. DOI: 10.1016/j.mb.2016.06.017. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Puebla	Villaseñor, J. L. 2016. Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Rev. Mex. Biodivers. 87:885. DOI: 10.1016/j.mb.2016.06.017. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Querétaro	Villaseñor, J. L. 2016. Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Rev. Mex. Biodivers. 87:885. DOI: 10.1016/j.mb.2016.06.017. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Quintana Roo	Villaseñor, J. L. 2016. Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Rev. Mex. Biodivers. 87:885. DOI: 10.1016/j.mb.2016.06.017. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Tabasco	Villaseñor, J. L. 2016. Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Rev. Mex. Biodivers. 87:885. DOI: 10.1016/j.mb.2016.06.017. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave	Villaseñor, J. L. 2016. Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Rev. Mex. Biodivers. 87:885. DOI: 10.1016/j.mb.2016.06.017. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Yucatán	Villaseñor, J. L. 2016. Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Rev. Mex. Biodivers. 87:885. DOI: 10.1016/j.mb.2016.06.017. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Belize		Pennington, T. D. 1990. Sapotaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 52:380. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Costa Rica		Pennington, T. D. 1990. Sapotaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 52:380. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	El Salvador		Pennington, T. D. 1990. Sapotaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 52:380. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala		Pennington, T. D. 1990. Sapotaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 52:380. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Honduras		Pennington, T. D. 1990. Sapotaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 52:380. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Nicaragua		Pennington, T. D. 1990. Sapotaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 52:380. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Panama	Coclé	Pennington, T. D. 1990. Sapotaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 52:380. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Panama	Los Santos	Pennington, T. D. 1990. Sapotaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 52:380. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Panama	Panamá	Pennington, T. D. 1990. Sapotaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 52:380. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
2	Cultivated	Africa	East Tropical Africa	Kenya		Awang-Kanak, F. & M. F. Abu Bakar . 2018. Canistel - Pouteria campechiana (Kunth) Baehni. In: Rodrigues, S. et al., Exotic fruits. Reference guide. 107-111. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-803138-4.00015-0. https://doi.org/10.1016/C2014-0-02888-2
2	Cultivated	Africa	East Tropical Africa	Tanzania		Awang-Kanak, F. & M. F. Abu Bakar . 2018. Canistel - Pouteria campechiana (Kunth) Baehni. In: Rodrigues, S. et al., Exotic fruits. Reference guide. 107-111. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-803138-4.00015-0. https://doi.org/10.1016/C2014-0-02888-2
2	Cultivated	Africa	East Tropical Africa	Uganda		Awang-Kanak, F. & M. F. Abu Bakar . 2018. Canistel - Pouteria campechiana (Kunth) Baehni. In: Rodrigues, S. et al., Exotic fruits. Reference guide. 107-111. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-803138-4.00015-0. https://doi.org/10.1016/C2014-0-02888-2
2	Cultivated	Africa	Northern Africa	Egypt		Awang-Kanak, F. & M. F. Abu Bakar . 2018. Canistel - Pouteria campechiana (Kunth) Baehni. In: Rodrigues, S. et al., Exotic fruits. Reference guide. 107-111. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-803138-4.00015-0. https://doi.org/10.1016/C2014-0-02888-2
2	Cultivated	Asia-Tropical	Indian Subcontinent	India		Awang-Kanak, F. & M. F. Abu Bakar . 2018. Canistel - Pouteria campechiana (Kunth) Baehni. In: Rodrigues, S. et al., Exotic fruits. Reference guide. 107-111. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-803138-4.00015-0. https://doi.org/10.1016/C2014-0-02888-2
2	Cultivated	Asia-Tropical	Indian Subcontinent	Sri Lanka		Awang-Kanak, F. & M. F. Abu Bakar . 2018. Canistel - Pouteria campechiana (Kunth) Baehni. In: Rodrigues, S. et al., Exotic fruits. Reference guide. 107-111. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-803138-4.00015-0. https://doi.org/10.1016/C2014-0-02888-2
2	Cultivated	Asia-Tropical	Indo-China	Cambodia		Awang-Kanak, F. & M. F. Abu Bakar . 2018. Canistel - Pouteria campechiana (Kunth) Baehni. In: Rodrigues, S. et al., Exotic fruits. Reference guide. 107-111. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-803138-4.00015-0. https://doi.org/10.1016/C2014-0-02888-2
2	Cultivated	Asia-Tropical	Indo-China	Thailand		Awang-Kanak, F. & M. F. Abu Bakar . 2018. Canistel - Pouteria campechiana (Kunth) Baehni. In: Rodrigues, S. et al., Exotic fruits. Reference guide. 107-111. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-803138-4.00015-0. https://doi.org/10.1016/C2014-0-02888-2
2	Cultivated	Asia-Tropical	Indo-China	Vietnam		Awang-Kanak, F. & M. F. Abu Bakar . 2018. Canistel - Pouteria campechiana (Kunth) Baehni. In: Rodrigues, S. et al., Exotic fruits. Reference guide. 107-111. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-803138-4.00015-0. https://doi.org/10.1016/C2014-0-02888-2
2	Cultivated	Asia-Tropical	Malesia	Indonesia		Awang-Kanak, F. & M. F. Abu Bakar . 2018. Canistel - Pouteria campechiana (Kunth) Baehni. In: Rodrigues, S. et al., Exotic fruits. Reference guide. 107-111. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-803138-4.00015-0. https://doi.org/10.1016/C2014-0-02888-2
2	Cultivated	Asia-Tropical	Malesia	Malaysia		Awang-Kanak, F. & M. F. Abu Bakar . 2018. Canistel - Pouteria campechiana (Kunth) Baehni. In: Rodrigues, S. et al., Exotic fruits. Reference guide. 107-111. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-803138-4.00015-0. https://doi.org/10.1016/C2014-0-02888-2
2	Cultivated	Northern America	Southeastern U.S.A.	United States	Florida	Awang-Kanak, F. & M. F. Abu Bakar . 2018. Canistel - Pouteria campechiana (Kunth) Baehni. In: Rodrigues, S. et al., Exotic fruits. Reference guide. 107-111. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-803138-4.00015-0. https://doi.org/10.1016/C2014-0-02888-2

Native
Northern America

NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa]
SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México, Michoacán de Ocampo, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, Yucatán]

Southern America

CENTRAL AMERICA: Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama [Coclé, Los Santos, Panamá], El Salvador

Cultivated
Africa

NORTHERN AFRICA: Egypt
EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda

Asia-Tropical

INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Sri Lanka
INDO-CHINA: Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia

Northern America

SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Florida]

Reference(s)

Awang-Kanak, F. & M. F. Abu Bakar . 2018. Canistel - Pouteria campechiana (Kunth) Baehni. In: Rodrigues, S. et al., Exotic fruits. Reference guide. 107-111. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-803138-4.00015-0. https://doi.org/10.1016/C2014-0-02888-2
Pennington, T. D. 1990. Sapotaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 52:380. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
Villaseñor, J. L. 2016. Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Rev. Mex. Biodivers. 87:885. DOI: 10.1016/j.mb.2016.06.017. Note: as Pouteria campechiana

Economic Uses

Usage	Type	Note	Reference
Environmental	shade/shelter	for coffee plants	Awang-Kanak, F. & M. F. Abu Bakar . 2018. Canistel - Pouteria campechiana (Kunth) Baehni. In: Rodrigues, S. et al., Exotic fruits. Reference guide. 107-111. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-803138-4.00015-0. https://doi.org/10.1016/C2014-0-02888-2
Human food	fruit		Granados-Vega, K. M. et al. . 2023. Harvest season and morphological variation of Canistel (Pouteria campechiana) fruit and leaves collected in different zones of Mexico. Horticulturae. OAJ 9:1214. DOI: 10.3390/horticulturae9111214. Note: as Pouteria campechiana
Human food	fruit	raw	Ulian, T. et al. . 2021. Neglected and underutilized species of Mexico: status and priorities for their conservation and sustainable use. In: Padulosi, S. et al., Orphan crops for sustainable food and nutrition security. Promoting neglected and underutilized species 118-127. DOI: 10.4324/9781003044802-10.
Materials	wood	timber	Pérez-Barcena, J. F. et al. 2021. Partial characterization of the physical, chemical, and morphological properties of the seed of Pouteria campechiana (Sapotaceae). Fruits 76:201-210. DOI: 10.17660/th2021/76.4.5.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://npgstest.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=403411. Accessed 12 May 2026.