| Balatá | | Scientific classification or biological classification refers to how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. Modern classification has its roots in the system of Carolus Linnaeus, who grouped species according to shared physical characteristics. These groupings have been revised since Linnaeus to improve consistency with the Darwinian...
Scientific classification | | Kingdom: | Divisions Green algae land plants (embryophytes) non-vascular embryophytes Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses vascular plants (tracheophytes) seedless vascular plants Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongue ferns seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta...
Plantae | | Division: | Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. The other seed plants are called gymnosperms; here the ovule is...
Magnoliophyta | | Class: | Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. Flowering plants or angiosperms that are not dicotyledonous are monocotyledonous: having one embryonic leaf. See How to distinguish a monocot from a dicot for other characteristics that separate these two large groups of...
Magnoliopsida | | Order: | Families See text The Ericales are a large and diverse order of dicotyledons. The order is represented with many various life forms, starting from trees and bushes, to lianas and herbaceous plants. Together with ordinary autophytic plants, the Ericales include chlorophyll-deficient mycotrophic plants (e. g. Sarcodes sanguinea) and carnivorous...
Ericales | | Family: | Genera Argania Aubregrinia Aulandra Autranella Baillonella Breviea Burckella Butyrospermum Capurodendron Chromolucuma Chrysophyllum Delpydora Diploknema Diploon Eberhardtia Ecclinusa Elaeoluma Englerophytum Faucherea Gluema Inhambanella Isonandra Labourdonnaisia Labramia Lecomtedoxa Leptostylis Letestua Madhuca Manilkara Micropholis Neohemsleya Neolemonniera Nesoluma Niemeyera Northia Omphalocarpum Palaquium Payena Pichonia Pouteria Pradosia Pycnandra Sarcaulus Sideroxylon Tieghemella Tridesmostemon Tsebona Vitellaria Vitellariopsis...
Sapotaceae | | Genus: | Manilkara | | | Species | | About 70-90 species including:
Manilkara bahamensis
Manilkara bidentata
Manilkara chicle
Manilkara hexandra
Manilkara kauki
Manilkara littoralis
Manilkara zapote | Manilkara is a genus of This article is about the biological organisms known as trees. For other meanings of the word see tree (disambiguation). The coniferous Coast Redwood, the tallest tree species on earth A tree can be defined as a large, perennial, woody plant. Though there is no set definition regarding minimum size, the...
trees native throughout the A tropic is either of two circles of latitude: Tropic of Cancer, at 23½°N Tropic of Capricorn, at 23½°S Tropic is also the name of a town in Utah, United States. See also: tropics This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that...
tropics, with a concentration of species in the The New World is one of the names used for the continents of North and South America and adjacent islands collectively, in use since the 16th century. The continents were new to the Europeans, who knew the world consisting only of Europe, Asia, and Africa (the Old World). Carte d...
New World.
The genus includes a number of commercially important species, notably M. zapote (Sapodilla), M. chicle ( Binomial name Manilkara chicle (Pittier) Gilly Chicle is the gum from Manilkara chicle, a species of sapodilla tree. It is a tropical evergreen tree, native to in Central America and South America. It is the traditional material used in chewing gum. The tree is also grown for its fruit which...
Chicle) and M. bidentata (Balatá), grown for their edible In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant. In cuisine, when discussing fruit as food, the term usually refers to just those plant fruits that are sweet and fleshy, examples of which would be plum, apple, and orange. However, a great many...
fruit, This article describes the wood that comprises trees and boards. For other uses, see Wood (disambiguation). A tree trunk as found at the Veluwe, The Netherlands Wood is a material found as the primary content of the stems of woody plants, especially trees, but also shrubs. These perennial plants are...
wood and The extraction of Latex from a tree; Latex is used in Rubber production. See also LATEΧ, a macro package for the TEΧ typesetting system. Latex, as found in nature, is the milky sap of many plants that coagulates on exposure to air. It is a complex emulsion in...
latex.
Several of the species were previously classified under the invalid generic names Achras, Mimusops and Sapota.
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