The Sapotaceae are a family of flowering plants belonging to the order Ericales. The family includes about 800 species of evergreen trees and shrubs in around 65 genera. Their distribution is pantropical.
Pouteria campechiana is an evergreen tree native to, and cultivated in, southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and El Salvador. It is cultivated in other countries, such as India, Costa Rica, Brazil, the United States, the Dominican Republic, Australia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, and the Philippines. The edible part of the tree is its fruit, which is colloquially known as an egg fruit.
Pouteria is a genus of flowering trees in the gutta-percha family, Sapotaceae. The genus is widespread throughout the tropical Americas, with outlier species in Cameroon and Malesia. It includes the canistel, the mamey sapote, and the lucuma. Commonly, this genus is known as pouteria trees, or in some cases, eggfruits.
The long-tailed porcupine is a species of rodent in the family Hystricidae. It is monotypic within the genus Trichys, and is found in Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
Breviea is a genus of plant in the family Sapotaceae described in 1935.
Myrsine fasciculata is a species of plant in the family Primulaceae. It is endemic to the island of Raiatea in the Society Islands of French Polynesia.
Northia is a genus of plants in the family Sapotaceae.
Pouteria decussata is a species of plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is endemic to Brazil.
Pouteria dominigensis is a species of plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is native to Cuba, Hispaniola, the Bahamas, and Florida. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Pouteria oppositifolia is a species of plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is endemic to Brazil. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Pouteria gardneri is a species of plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is a tree native to Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay. Its conservation status is insufficiently known.
Ryparosa fasciculata is a species of plant in the family Achariaceae. It is a tree endemic to Peninsular Malaysia. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Dendrocousinsia fasciculata is a species of plant in the family Euphorbiaceae. It is endemic to western and central Jamaica.
Tillandsia fasciculata, commonly known as the giant airplant, giant wild pine, or cardinal airplant, is a species of bromeliad that is native to Central America, Mexico, the West Indies, northern South America, and the southeastern United States. Within the United States, this airplant is at risk of extirpation from the Mexican bromeliad weevil, Metamasius callizona. A related plant, Tillandsia utriculata, sometimes called the "wild pine", is endemic to the same areas.
Planchonella eerwah is a rare species of Australian rainforest tree in the family Sapotaceae. Common names include shiny-leaved condoo, black plum and wild apple. It is endemic to south eastern Queensland, with a restricted distribution and regarded as endangered.
Madhuca pallida is a tree in the family Sapotaceae. The specific epithet pallida means "pale in colour", referring to the leaves.
Madhuca sessilis is a tree in the family Sapotaceae. The specific epithet sessilis means "without stalk", referring to the leaves.
Planchonella malaccensis is a tree in the family Sapotaceae. It is named after Malacca in Peninsular Malaysia.
Vernonia fasciculata, the smooth ironweed or common ironweed, or prairie ironweed is a species of perennial plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Manitoba in Canada and the north-central U.S.A.
Mollia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae. It is within the Grewioideae subfamily, and the Grewieae tribe.
