Trees & Plants

Chiku

Sabudheli

Manilkara zapota (L.) P.

Cultivated in homesteads Cultivated for its edible and nutritious fruit. The wood is of moderate quality and is used in small scale constructions. An infusion of the young fruit and the flower is drunk to relieve pulmonary complaints. A decoction of old, yellowed leaves is a reme

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uses: Cultivated for its edible and nutritious fruit. The wood is of moderate quality and is used in small scale constructions. An infusion of the young fruit and the flower is drunk to relieve pulmonary complaints. A decoction of old, yellowed leaves is a remedy for coughs, colds and diarrhea. A paste of the seeds is applied on stings and bites from venomous animals. 6,
family: Sapotaceae
synonym: Manilkara achras (Mill.) Fosberg, Achras sapota L.
description: Trees, to 15 m high, young parts covered with brown hairs; exudation is milky. Leaves simple, alternate, clustered towards the apex of branchlets, 7-15.5 ×2.5- is 4.5 cm, elliptic, or elliptic-oblanceolate, base A acute or attenuate, apex slightly acuminate with retuse tip; lateral nerves many, parallel; petiole 10-30 mm long, stout. Flowers white, solitary or in pairs from the axils of upper leaves; pedicels 0.8-2 cm long, scurfy. Sepals 6, 3+3; 6.5-10 mm long. Corolla 0.7-1.1 cm long, campanulate, greenish-white; lobes 6, irregularly 2-3 toothed. Stamens 6, filaments free or partly fused with staminodes; staminodes 6, bifid, laciniate. Fruit a berry, 3.5-8 × 3-6 cm, ovoid or ellipsoid, scaly; seeds 1.5-2.5 cm long, many, black.
native range: North-Eastern Guatemala
distribution: Widely cultivated in the tropics
english names: Chiku · Naseberry · Sapota · Sapodilla
flowering fruiting: February - June
occurrence maldives: Cultivated in homesteads