Pouteria filipes

Pouteria filipes
		Scientific name	Pouteria filipes
Genus	Pouteria
Family	Sapotaceae
Order	Ericales
Native range	Tropical South America; the species record is associated with French Guiana and neighboring Guiana Shield countries.
Years to fruit	Not established for this species

Pouteria filipes is a tropical South American tree in the sapodilla family, Sapotaceae. GBIF's exact species match accepts Pouteria filipes and places it in Pouteria, Sapotaceae, and Ericales.^[1] The name is also represented in a French Guiana wood-collection record under the synonym Pseudolabatia filipes.^[2]

Species-specific fruit descriptions, edible-use confirmation, production timelines, and tested cultivation recommendations are not established in the botanical records cited below. The record should therefore be treated as a botanical species account rather than as a recommendation for fruit production.

Description

An institutional wood-collection record from French Guiana identifies Pouteria filipes (with Pseudolabatia filipes as a synonym) and gives vernacular names including kimboto in French Guiana, abiurana in Brazil, kamahora in Guyana, zapote in Nicaragua, caimitillo in Peru, swarte jamboka in Suriname, and bugero in Venezuela.[2] The material documents wood rather than a diagnostic account of leaves, flowers, or fruit, so those characters are not summarized here.

Cultivation

No species-specific cultivation trial or extension recommendation is identified for Pouteria filipes. The guidance below records the evidence boundary rather than transferring practices from another Pouteria species.

Soil and water

The botanical records place the species in tropical South America but do not establish a soil texture, pH, drainage requirement, flood tolerance, or irrigation schedule for living plants.^[3] Do not treat general abiu or other sapotaceous-fruit guidance as species-specific evidence.

Sun and humidity

A verified light, humidity, airflow, or shade requirement for Pouteria filipes is not established in the botanical records. Its tropical South American occurrence supports a warm-climate research lead, not a quantified exposure or humidity prescription.[3]

Seasonal changes

Flowering and fruiting seasons, drought response, dormancy, and cold tolerance are not established for this species in the botanical records. A grower should not infer a seasonal schedule from another Pouteria.

Propagation

Seed handling, germination time, vegetative propagation, and graft compatibility have not been established by a species-specific botanical or horticultural source. No propagation protocol is given.

Flowering, fruiting, and harvest

The botanical record does not verify flowers, fruit morphology, fruit flavor, yield, harvest season, or years to fruit for Pouteria filipes. The species should not be represented as an established edible-fruit crop on this evidence.

Fruit and uses

The supplied botanical record is a wood record and lists uses for the wood including fences, stakes, posts, pontoons, firewood, and charcoal.[2] It does not verify an edible fruit use. The common names in that record are vernacular names for the tree or wood and are not treated as proof of a fruit cultivar or market name.

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References

• ↑ [1] ↑ [1] GBIF species match: Pouteria filipes.

• ↑ [2] ↑ [3] Bibliothèque nationale de France: Collection de bois de la Xylothèque du Cirad.

• ↑ [3] ↑ [2] Plants of the World Online: Pouteria filipes search.

Image credits

• Collection de bois de la Xylothèque du Cirad ... (1 of 2), Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (France), Programme Bois; public domain.
• Collection de bois de la Xylothèque du Cirad ... (2 of 2), Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (France), Programme Bois; public domain.